Trump BEGS For HUMILIATING CEASEFIRE With Iran

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I was going to say Ryan is back from Cuba and we have a whole block prepared. We're going to go through some of the pictures and reporting that Ryan, pictures Chuck, but also reporting Ryan did in an interview actually with what the top, the third top official in Cuba with a big scoop.

Yes. And so, and what you guys don't know is that back before the internet and Instagram, when people would come back from trips overseas, they would invite all their neighbors over to literally watch.

Yes.

They kind of slide, so they'd put up on the wall of their house or something.

I still do that for my parents.

Yeah. So that's what you guys are gonna have to suffer through today.

There you go. But it's actually it's not going to be suffering through it's a it's super interesting and Ryan was on Newsmax last night got into a fun tussle with the host so we're going to break that down. More immediately though new updates actually recent updates from both US negotiators and Iranian negotiators towards a potential ceasefire peace deal over there. We are going to break all of that down and there's a lot to get to. Donald Trump was making remarks in the Oval Office yesterday saying all kinds of crazy stuff.

Did you watch this presser? I watched a lot of it. It was Trump in normal form. And Hagseth? Hagseth, oh my god. Keeping, we're on the throttle. And Trump giving him the eyebrow raise. Yeah. When he's talking about the hard throttle. Trump still Michael Scott. That's what she said as his war secretary is talking.

Basically, whatever.

Trump is so kind of amused and confused by Hegseth, but kind of loves him.

Yeah, because you're right. I think it was similar with Christy Noem until it wasn't. It can happen quickly.

If Trump wasn't bringing so much death, destruction, and despair to the world, we could just sit back and kind of laugh at his antics. And another thing I hate him for is depriving us of that joy. With what he's doing, you can't even laugh at him. And it's like, that was the best thing about him

is just how funny he is.

Yeah, now we're at war with Iran.

And just, yeah, and like, just trying to strangle Cuba and doing, it's like, come on.

Well, we also have-

We get back to the jokes.

I am not optimistic that'll happen anytime soon. We also have updates from Lebanon, where we're looking at some significant, significant incursions from Israel, new updates from.

What did the New York Times get hammered for calling it?

What did they say?

New York Times said something like, Israel may decide to continue to control some of the territory that it has grabbed.

What?

Yes, invading and occupying Lebanon is the

word you're looking for. They should have just went with Trump. I believe I'll have the

honor of taking it soon. Honor of taking Lebanon, which does not have a right to exist. Yes, we

should have just went with that, apparently, from the New York Times. Lots, lots of stuff on Cuba because that's moving very quickly, Ryan. You can tell us more about this, but this is what the government calls Operation Total Extermination. It's the Pentagon title

for Western Hemisphere. That's not great when you're in the Western Hemisphere and you find out that the operation directed at you is called, say it again?

Total Extermination. Yeah, that's not good. No, not great, but Ryan is going to tell us what's really happening on the ground and what we could see happening very soon. Democrats, I mean we have new Gavin Newsom footage here. Democrats are squirming over AIPAC. Some are sort of, that we could use that as an intro for every show, but some are apparently leaning into saying I'm not taking any money from AIPAC as though it's a badge of honor. But we'll see how what that actually means at the end of the day whose money they will and will not take but there's some

new clips. Gavin Newsom, Cory Booker, this is him saying, we don't have a clip of this, but he said he's not taking AIPAC money. So lots to get to on that front and Ryan's the guy for it because he's been reporting on this for years.

Yes, indeed. Unfortunately, it's not even the thing I wanted to report on. I was just reporting on like progressive campaigns. And all of a sudden there's $100 million from this outside group in these campaigns. Like I thought this was about like

where you are on the Green New Deal.

No, it never is. All right, also AI blackouts possibly coming in the future, not possibly, probably coming in the future. New reporting on college graduates, the plight of college graduates this spring. Many of you are probably experiencing that right now and I'm sure you'll let us know in the comments. It's bad, it's bleak.

And Jensen Wang says we've reached AGI, new clip of him on Lex Friedman. Finally Ryan, we have a guest to go through some horrible economic updates, looking really rough, Christopher

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We should put you like on a milk carton or something. Yes, but sponsor this sponsor this journalist. Yep Alright, let's get into the show. New updates in negotiations that apparently are happening according to the US government.

Well, let's be clear. Negotiations require two parties and require one party to respond to the other.

Exactly.

Iran, to this day, has still not responded to the US. So, there's a lot of WhatsApp being used for these communications. If you use WhatsApp, you know you get those two little blue checks if it's been received. And you're just like, OK, they got it. Are they going to respond here? And so Witkoff has been left on these two blue checks for more than a week now.

Now he has just sent, he's like, F it. And he just sends like an entire ceasefire proposal That Iran has not formally responded to yet. Although the Wall Street Journal has a story about Iran's response Well, well, yeah Let's get into the so the reporting from now it's important to understand that the reporting first emerged out of Israel and from Israeli media and

I was talking to my colleague Jeremy Scahill this morning. He was saying that we should take the specifics with a grain of salt according to his sources in Tehran, but it is indeed true and actually we up work with Jeremy Jeremy's post here. It is it is indeed true that the US has sent Has sent an offer sheet basically for a 30-day ceasefire Iran is reviewing it Iran is extraordinarily skeptical of the seriousness of the United States because twice they have entered into negotiations and

Killed the negotiators and then launched wars with Iran. They killed Hamas negotiators after delivering a peace deal to Hamas, like the Trump peace deal they met to discuss it. It's not a good omen. Yeah, so they're like, hmm, yeah, so until they're reviewing it and there's been no formal response yet, according to Jeremy's sources. And until then, the retaliatory strikes will continue. The war is on until it's off.

Like, there's no pausing on the assumption that this is serious. But it's still worth us going through the terms. Just understand that some of the details are probably shaded a little bit that were released out of Israeli media.

Yeah, so let's put them up on the screen. This is A0, the 15 minute.

You wanna go through these since you have better eyes?

Yes, I remember my glasses, although I don't always. This is from, as Ryan said, Israeli media, this is really Channel 12 being cited. One, 15 clauses here. One, automatically cancel the threat of

reimposition of sanctions. Which is incredible, by the way. Let's just, that's opening bid from the US. I had to think about that one twice. Like lifting, Iran gets its sanctions lifted. Like incredible. Okay. That's, yeah. Two, dismantling Iran's existing nuclear capabilities. They already agreed to that in February.

Three, agreement with Iran, Iran vows never to seek nuclear weapons.

They agreed to that in February.

Preventing the enrichment of any nuclear material on Iranian territory.

That is probably a misreporting or misinformation from Israel. I would expect that the details are not that tight. Yeah, okay, interesting sticking point there. That would be a total prevention. Five, delivery of enriched uranium to the IAEA. Iran basically agreed to some version of that. They even agreed to allow US companies

to operate the Iranian program in February. So just because Iran, by the way, agreed to these things in February doesn't mean they will now. They're in a better position than they were, ironically, in February. Anyway, go

ahead. Delivery, oh I just did that one. Six, decommissioning and destroying the

sites of Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow. Seven. That's probably a little bit not exactly how it reads.

Well that's an interesting one too because we basically have claimed to destroy the Tansyvani. That was Midnight Hammer.

Yeah, check.

Grant the IAEA full access to all information. Check. Iran abandons proxies approach.

Well that's interesting. Maybe this is the kind of thing Iran agrees to and then just doesn't live up to. Yeah. Which is a very Israeli slash

Middle East thing to do sometimes. Stopping funding and arming militias in the region so similar. Yeah keeping the Strait of Hormuz open without any closure. Yeah I don't think they're gonna open as long as you pay them. I was gonna say they've learned. Postponement of decision on ballistic missile program. In other words, cool, yeah, get off our jock about the missiles. A few more here. Ballistic missiles are only used for defense. According to them that's all that they're used for.

And actually they have never, as far as I'm aware of, and correct me if I'm wrong out there in the comments, I'm not aware of them ever launching a ballistic missile strike against any country where they weren't

hit first.

Lifting all sanctions on Iran.

Incredible. From the US?

Yeah, this is, again, this is the summary.

This is a real blow to the Trump is winning the war crowd. We're gonna lift all sanctions in order to end this war but we're definitely

winning it. And we're gonna tell you to destroy the sites that we said we'd basically destroyed. Alright last one or two more. Support for the development of a civilian nuclear program. Mm-hmm. Automatically canceled the threat. They

agreed to that basically in February, but the US refused it.

And the last one is just automatically canceled the threat of reimposition of sanctions.

Same thing as number one. Like, so you're promising multiple times that you won't sanction them.

Right, in different ways. Let's then, Ryan, talk about the story that broke overnight from the Wall Street Journal. And again, this is pretty new. According to the Politico summary, their peace proposal demands include, quote, the closure of all American bases in the Gulf, the payment of reparations for missile attacks on Iran, plus the lifting of all existing

sanctions. They want to collect fees for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, to the point you just made, and end to Israeli attacks on Hezbollahllah and permission to start its missile building program without limits. Ryan, the question though is how legitimate is this Wall Street Journal summary of the Iranian peace proposal?

According to Jeremy's sources, this is, they have not formally responded. So, so

it got leaked to the journal or someone is manipulating the journal with a fake

peace proposal? The journals, sources in general, tend to be on the American and Israeli side. And so typically throughout this conflict, if your sources have been on the American and Israeli side, you're more likely to get incorrect information. There may be some kind of informal back and forth

that's happening and that the US or Israel gleaned from that back and forth that this is what they want. I can say for sure that Iran's position is that it is a very high priority of theirs that the US bases be dismantled in the region. And they have said from day one that they want reparations. Like, I don't think people, and people might laugh at that,

we know that it is a horrific war crime that we started the war by killing at least 165 little girls. We know that intellectually, and a lot of us kind of feel it in our bones. It happened to Iranian girls.

It is that much more real to the Iranians. They're getting pummeled in a way that Israel, the UAE, Kuwait, etc., are not even getting pummeled. They're getting hit really ruthlessly. You saw the images of the black smoke that could cause, you know, cancer among the Tehran population for decades. They feel like they've been wronged, that they did not

start the war, they've been pummeled, and they deserve reparations for this. Whether they actually get that and what form that takes, we'll see. But I'm just, my point here is that-

It's strengthen the results.

And they are serious. Like they feel, we did not do anything to you to deserve this, you did this, you're now losing, pay us.

Let's listen to the Commander-in-Chief, Donald Trump, in the Oval Office at, this was the swearing in for Mark Wayne Mullen at DHS yesterday. He had a couple of interesting moments. A1.

Because they're going to make a deal. They're going to make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually. They gave us a present, and the present arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. And I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.

And they gave it to us and they said they were going to give it. So that meant one thing to me, we're dealing with the right people.

Was that nuclear related?

No, it wasn't nuclear related. It was oil and gas related. And it was a very nice thing they did. But what it showed me is that we're dealing with the right people.

So a couple more clips that we're just gonna.

Well, we got to speculate first about what it was. Will Meniker said it was a large wooden horse.

Possible. Great tweet.

My sources say that Trump got an email from somebody who said that they were the Ayatollah's nephew and that he had access to trillions of dollars in reserves, but he needed just a few thousand dollars in Bitcoin to unlock those reserves. And they're going back and forth right now. Trump accidentally is now apparently locked out of his devices. So they're trying to figure out, because once they can get those trillion dollars in reserves,

it's gonna be smooth sailing, he's gonna give checks to every American, it's gonna be incredible.

Did you see the moment in Bill Clinton's Epstein deposition where he was asked about sending emails?

No.

Oh, I'm gonna send it to you, it's amazing. He boomer maxes. I think that's probably where Trump is on emailing too. You got to text it to him. Probably like really big font. But he continued, he continued. We learned about his plans for an electric plant, A2. You know, if you read the papers,

you think we're tied. You think we're in a tough battle. We are roaming free over Tehran, the city Tehran, as opposed to Iran. We're roaming free, we can do whatever we want. And as you know, today we were gonna have the privilege of shooting down a very big electric generation plant, one of the biggest in the world,

and one shot to the right location ends the plant, it collapses. And we held off based on the fact that we're negotiating.

So much to unpack, Tehran, not Iran. I like sometimes how he gives insight into how his brain works. You see Tehran, you think Iran, but no, it's the city, Tehran.

Love to be there the first time he learned that the capital of Iran was Tehran.

Yes.

It blew his mind.

It's clever.

Now, also... And then there's Esfahan.

One of his criticisms of Barack Obama and many people on the right is they were often telegraphing plans, military plans. Here Trump freelancing at a DHS swearing in ceremony in the Oval Office says, today we're going to have the privilege of shooting down a very big electric generation plant, ostensibly before it happened, Ryan.

Yeah, except he didn't end up doing that because Iran threatened to escalate if he did that, and he backed down.

So is it a taco or is it him negotiating? Like actual question, because I think this is one thing that people get wrong about Trump, is that it's sometimes called a taco. And it's like, I see where you think it's called a taco. And he takes a lot of L's on these things, rightfully so.

Other times he's clearly just negotiating in public and wants to set the parameters in a certain direction.

Taco in this case implies that he was going to do something and then he chickened out. I'm not convinced that's true. I think it was market manipulation beginning to end, that the front end threat was market manipulation. And the back end, fake chickening out was more market manipulation. And if anybody's watching, by the way, there is a lot to subpoena in 2027.

When Democrats are probably going to take the House, they should have subpoena power. So we need to write down all the things we want to know, because we're going to forget, because there's so many things. So we need 2027subpoenas.org or something like that. And put on the list, who are these investors, these Nostradamus-like traders who went in and made the perfect oil trade right before he came out with his, were actually in fake negotiations with Iran, and who bought

all of these S&P futures, like, because there's, there are a couple of traders that are making these massive trades that are perfectly timed with Trump's fake moves.

The Monday was.

So we need to put it on the subpoena list for 2027.

Absolutely put it on the subpoena list for 2027. Speaking of our negotiations, here's Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, A3.

The air campaign that we've conducted, that Israel's conducted alongside us, was one for the history books, truly. And it's because we have a president of the United States that when he sends his war fighters out to fight, he unties their hands to actually go out and close with and destroy the enemy as viciously as possible from moment one. And that's why we see ourselves as part of this negotiation as well.

We negotiate with bombs.

You have a choice as we loiter over the top of Tehran, as the president talked about, about your future. President has made it clear that you will not have a nuclear weapon. The War Department agrees. Our job is to ensure that. And so we're keeping our hand on that throttle as long as is hard as is necessary to ensure the interest of the United States of America are achieved on that battlefield.

We negotiate with bombs as we are also negotiating apparently peace plan point by point by point.

If you have a second and you're like a juvenile, like roll back and watch Trump's eyebrow raise. Yeah, it's pretty good. Also if you are the guy that started the war killing 165 plus little girls, would you really keep celebrating how Trump untied your hands? Like he keeps talking about how there were all of these stupid political rules of engagement that kept the US from waging war the way that Pete Hegsa thinks that we should wage war and

The first chance he gets to put those rules into place He double taps an elementary school

Well, I mean he would probably say successful Venezuela operation civilian harm mitigated

All right, the first time he gets a second the first time he has a war against an actual war. A Middle Eastern country. Yeah, he that was a raid that who knows you know, what what happened politically behind that. Yeah, truly we don't know. Yeah. So yes, he did not double tap an elementary school in Venezuela. I will give him that.

There it is. Yes, a very high bar for our War Department. Here's Donald Trump talking about, maybe the right word for this is cavalierly, talking about a launch of missiles at a US aircraft carrier. Next stop.

With our great Patriot missiles, think of it, they shot a hundred missiles at one of our aircraft carriers, the Abraham Lincoln, one of the biggest ships in the world, actually. And out of 101 missiles shot, every single one of them was knocked down in the sea. Think of that. Think of what that means. 101 missiles, highly sophisticated, very fast missile shot. Out of 101, all 101 were shot down. And now, for the most part, lie at the bottom of the sea. Pretty amazing, right? Pretty amazing. Our military is amazing, Pete. You

know the attack I'm talking about recently? 101 shot. I said, Wow. I saw that. You can see we have sort of pretty good equipment that we see. It's called the red line. Those red lines were thick, right? I said, that's a lot. And then we saw them one by one just get shot. And these guys that do the shooting, the coolest cucumbers ever.

You know, most people, you don't have a lot of time when a missile is going at 2,500 miles

an hour. He also just did the Shane Gillis bit there, Ryan, where Gillis's Trump impersonation, he explains by saying, I walked into a room, I said, wow, what a beautiful room. He literally

just did that in the middle of a conversation about war. Yeah. And this is the kind of information that the Department of War keeps under a very tight lid. They do not let the public in on the amount of volleys sent at the Lincoln carrier group. The fact that they had to expand, they're not Patriot missiles, they have other missile defenses on ships, but whatever.

I get details wrong too, me and Trump, it's fine. But for him to reveal that is very interesting, as we did not know that. And now people are speculating, oh, that might explain why we're seeing the Lincoln Carrier Group kind of shading further and further away from Iran, which makes it more difficult for us to project power back. And so if, okay, great, good, good.

I'm glad for the sailors that they shot down the 101 missiles, but it shows how vulnerable the carrier group is. And it, and-

How scary the situation is.

Yeah, and in a way that the US is not used to. Like the US and Israel are used to just flying over Gaza, dropping whatever bombs they want, and then just landing, no stress at all. Nobody's shooting back at them. We're now getting shot at,

and we are kind of retreating in significant ways. The Ford carrier group, they're like cooked, they're done. This like supposed, somebody didn't clean the lint drawer and there was a big fire in the dryer area, and now that whole carrier group is out of commission. For a trillion dollars a year,

we can't keep our carrier groups close to Iran even. It's amazing.

Well, meanwhile, let's put up the next element. This is A5. CENTCOM told Stars and Stripes yesterday that a total of 290 service members have been wounded so far in Operation Epic Fury. The majority of those, 255, have returned to duty. The number of seriously injured remains 10. We also then should go to the next element from Barack Ravid, who reported yesterday,

a senior US official tells me the 82nd Airborne Division Headquarters has received an order from the Pentagon to deploy to the Middle East along with several infantry brigades of thousands of soldiers. Ravid says why it matters, this is a significant additional reinforcement to the US force structure in the region ahead of a possible ground operation in Iran. Ryan, when you look at the news, this is the escalation spiral in action that you go back 10 years from now, 10 months from now, and do an autopsy.

You know, we'll see the military analysts go back 10 months from now and autopsy what just transpired or what's transpiring at the moment, and they'll say, these are the precipitating factors of escalation. We're watching it happen.

Yeah, and I can confirm that. We heard the same yesterday that the 82nd Airborne is being dispatched from Fort Bragg. There are, I'm sure, all sorts of plans being drawn up for Delta Force and these special operations types. The Karg Island, which is this island that Trump keeps getting pushed to seize and plays a very crucial role in Iran's oil production and shipping is constantly kind of on the target list.

And there was this incredible, I think it was in a paragraph in the Washington Post that said, you know, defense department officials are game planning out what it would take and they believe that they could seize Karg Island. Probably true, we have have the most impressive special ops

and Delta Force guys, all hopped up on, as Seth Harbis written, the best drugs that they can ship into our country. So they could take it, but then they had a line that said, for as long as they were there, they would have to fend off a relentless volley

of drones and missiles. It's like yeah, yes, like in perpetuity. That's right, like guys, so you're gonna put a whole bunch of guys on an island right next to Iran, which is part of Iran, and what are they gonna do about the missiles and drones raining down on them? Like what are you, how are you gonna fend those off? You can be the baddest special operator on the planet. You can't just get rained on by drones and missiles in perpetuity.

Yeah, you need to get resupplied constantly. Again, it's an escalation spiral.

You have to not get blown up, which is hard when you're getting missiles rained on you constantly. So it's just not a thing that you can do, unless you completely just vaporize Iran. As long as Iran exists and can fire off drones, then those troops can't hold Karg Island.

Yeah. A couple polls to get to here. This one is actually, people started picking up on it.

How does the public feel about this?

Well, people started picking up on it. How does the public feel about this? Well, people started picking up on this one yesterday. It was actually a YouGov poll that was done in mid-February. We can put the next element up on the screen. This was just looking at a Real News article pulled out by Adam Johnson who said, a new YouGov poll shows 25% of Americans falsely believe Iran possesses nuclear weapons, and 45% believe the also-false claim Iran has an active nuclear weapons program. And I went back and followed the poll. It was taken in mid-February.

I'm sure you would get very, very similar results if you conducted it today. Meanwhile, though, even with that, so just keep that in your brain, let's go to the next poll.

A8.

This is genuinely a new poll. CBS News, taken March 17th through 20th, 92% of Americans want to end the conflict as quickly as possible. 80% say they want to make sure Iran's people are safe and free. 73% say permanently stop Iran's nuclear programs. 68% say stop Iran from threatening other countries. Predictable results, but 92% saying end the conflict

as quickly as possible, Ryan.

Yeah, I remember in our poll, there were some interesting kind of contradictory thoughts. People desperately wanted the war to end, so I find that to be a very credible number. People also, in our poll, we asked about the ballistic missile program.

They overwhelmingly, American people, do not want Iran to have a ballistic missile program. I'd like to try to square some of that for people. Okay, well, what are you willing to do? How much war are you willing to engage in? Do you want to engage in?

To make sure. Like just as a, should this country that we believe is scary have a ballistic missile program? I can imagine, of course, like most Americans would be like, no, why would we want a dangerous country to have dangerous weapons?

But then it's like, well, okay, the only way we're gonna stop them from that is forever war.

Well, so I wanna stop on this point just briefly because it's been driving me insane. We remember when Diego Garcia was hit or was fired at Diego Garcia several days ago. There were people all over X from the right taking dubs being like, you're telling me Iran doesn't pose a quote imminent threat. Look at what they just did. Their missile range is double what we thought it was.

If you go and look at the countries that have full, we're not even talking about nuclear weapons, if you look at just ICBMs, how many countries can cover the entire globe with their missiles, do we think that we should be going to war with North Korea? Because if you're using your justification that this is an anti-American death cult, and it needs to be taken care of because they have a ballistic missiles program Because if you're using your justification that this is an anti-American death cult and it needs to be taken care of because they have a ballistic missiles program that can

hit much of Europe, and it's true, they do, that's absolutely accurate, North Korea's is bigger. North Korea's range is bigger than Iran's. So if that is your justification, now I'm not saying it's everybody's only justification, but the glibness that was being projected after the Diego Garcia incident was mind-boggling because it's a justification to go to war with other countries, but particularly with

North Korea. And if you want to put that idea in Donald Trump's head and have America first Donald Trump, then after he finds some type of peace, he's already said that we won the war, go on and say we're gonna win a war with North Korea, enjoy that.

Yeah, now they've got nuclear tips on those ICBMs, which also plays into our how, we're like, you know what, we're gonna go pick on Cuba, I think actually, Cuba's the problem.

Yeah, total extermination, that actually. Cuba's the problem. Yeah.

Total extermination. That's the name of the operation. We'll get to that in just a moment. Ryan, Pakistan getting increasingly involved in this particular conflict. Go ahead, throw the next element up on the screen. This is Pakistan's prime minister saying this just yesterday, Pakistan welcomes and fully

supports ongoing efforts to pursue dialogue to end the war in the Middle East in the interest of peace and stability in the region beyond subject to concurrence by the US and Iran Pakistan stands ready and honored to be the host of facilitate meaningful and conclusive talks for comprehensive settlement of the ongoing conflict We roughly already knew that Ryan But can you maybe since you've covered Pakistan pretty closely in the last several years, explain to us the significance.

According to our reporting, Witkoff has been there in Islamabad for two days. They weren't returning his text messages, so he's like, maybe if I go to Islamabad, they'll just meet me at the bar. They haven't yet.

And so, Pakistan is trying to become the new Oman here. The Iranians are quite skeptical of moving the brokering from Oman over to Pakistan. Pakistani generals and the Pakistani military in general are are known like internationally as In a world of untrustworthy people like the least trustworthy people. So if you were trying to Pick some pick a trusted intermediary to negotiate these Talks with and with an adversary who is already not trustworthy because they have gone to war with you twice in the middle of negotiations

Pakistan doesn't raise your confidence level that this is on the up and up. So Well, we'll see if Iran is like whatever fine. Whitkoff's already there Little Sombat's beautiful this time of year Pakistan apparently is almost out of LNG. And I think the Arab Spring and other protests, there was this wave of protests in the early 2010s around the world. A significant

and misunderstood or under understood role in those protests was the spiking of energy and commodity costs that flew out of the great financial crisis of 2007 and 8. And it made bread and fuel very expensive for people around the world and they went out to the streets. I think we're going to see a lot of that in the next couple of years. And Pakistan is a place you could very easily see it like this place that's like always just kind of on the brink,

getting pushed over it. So anyway, yeah. So we'll see if maybe they'll allow Pakistan to be the place.

Let's talk about Iraq. This is DropSite reporting. And Saibag clears PMFs, the Popular Mobilization Forces, to defend themselves after a deadly strike on militia headquarters this decision you all wrote follows airstrikes on a PMF command headquarters

let's put up a 15 for the context sorry to jump around yeah in showrooms and Ambar province oh yeah so a 15 yeah so this was yesterday or true date this is Monday airstrikes in Iraq on Iran-backed paramilitary alliance kill at least 15 fighters so this is The US is basically an open war with these Iranian allied

Iraqi militias, but these militias are not just freelance militias. They are a Part of the Security Service part of the security service, the actual government security service. We can go back to A10, as Emily was saying, the Iraq's National Security Councils, as Emily said, they're now authorizing these militias

to strike US forces. So that's state sanctioning of Iraqi aggression, not aggression, they would call it defense, because like they were just 15 of them were just killed. It was always disproportionate when you look at the numbers of people killed and wounded on the other side versus us. But yeah, so the Green Zone is completely evacuated. We need Iraqi airspace. We invaded Iraq and spent trillions of dollars to like control it. I didn't even think I knew

this. Maz was telling me all of the oil proceeds from Iraq live in the New York Federal Reserve and we just send them pallets of cash basically if we approve their budget. Like a total colonial structure there. Yet, despite that, they're shooting at us.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, despite all of the American troops that died over the years, they're shooting at us. And now, speaking of which, Task and Purpose A11 is reporting that the Army's enlistment age has been raised to 42. They also eased marijuana restrictions. So that's huge. How are you gonna find somebody that's gonna pass that test? Yeah. Now, I will say, people are just like, does it sound like Ukraine?

A little bit. I will say, the age limit for recruits being bumped from 35 to 42 in 2026, that actually might be long overdue just given how much healthier people are able to stay into their 40s.

I don't know if it's related to a recruitment crisis because of this ongoing war. It may well be. We'll learn more about it. But it also, people are staying much more healthy into their 40s, thanks to all kinds of different things.

Manosphere, keeping people fit for service.

Yep, that's right. It's all the bros.

Let's jump to A13 real quick because that relates to this Iraq conflict, the Iraq-US conflict. It's a VO, so you can just roll A13. This is an FPV, first-person view drone that is attacking Camp Victory, which is the US base right off of the Baghdad airport. And what's unique about this one is that it identifies this extremely expensive radar,

attacks it, destroys it, and then keeps going. So it hits that, or I guess gets footage of, it's like, I guess there's two of them, and one of them gets footage and then then they go they're like, all right what else should we blow up while we're here? This is mostly evacuated base and so there they find a helicopter and

boom there goes like a extremely expensive helicopter. Notice that they blurred that out. Apparently what they blurred out is the, I guess maybe they realized in post-production they had blown up a medical evac helicopter, which is less cool for them. They're still happy to destroy any military hardware

that we have, but I think they would prefer to get one of those helicopter gunships. And then probably somebody was, as they're editing, they're like, oh shoot, I think this is a medical evac helicopter. But either way, point is, the Iraqis are just

making mincemeat of our hardware that we've left behind. Because there was a ceasefire that was agreed to with the militias so that we could evacuate these bases of personnel. And then right at, I don't even know if we announced that we were ending the ceasefire, that's when we bombed these officials in Anbar province. Classic US, this like, oh, ceasefire?

Did we say ceasefire? We meant you ceasefire at us so that we can leave the base and then we kill you. And so that's, that I think duplicity contributed to the broader Iraqi government saying, you know what? Go ahead. You want to hit these, these creeps hit them.

Let's wrap on this news. This is going to be A14. Senior House Democrats telling Axios that the Iran War Powers Resolution is set to pass. Most if not all of the four defectors are expected to flip and vote for the measure this time because they were, quote, subject to intense criticism from the party's grassroots.

What do you make of that? So I think that means that Breaking Point's viewers have basically bullied these these Democrats who are pro-war into supporting this War Powers resolution and the way you know that it very likely has the votes to pass in the House is that Jeffries and Gregory Meeks are now saying that they want to postpone it. And as I've been reporting from the very beginning, Democrats secretly like this

war because they think it hurts Trump and they think it, you know, that helps their ideological project of helping Israel and degrading Iran. Like a lot of Democrats support that ideological and imperial project, and all Democrats want Trump hurt. This is obviously hurting Trump. And so now that the House is on the precipice

of a historic War Powers resolution vote that looks like it would now pass on the floor and put real restrictions on Trump. Now, what the Senate does and whether Trump abides by it is a different question, but having the House go on record against the war would be a consequential act. So now that we're on the cusp of that happening Meeks and Jeffries are like you know

what maybe we'll pause this and come back in like mid-April and put it on the floor in like three weeks because there's a recess coming up. So Meeks has basically today and tomorrow to man up and put this thing on the floor. Otherwise you have no choice but to believe what I've been telling you, that Democrats secretly want this war to continue. And what does that mean? That means not only that they find with the

Iranian, Iraqi, Kurdish, Israeli, all the people who are dying as a result of it, all of the pain that you're suffering and will suffer economically as a result of it now, in the weeks ahead, months ahead, and years ahead. Democrats are okay with that because they might pick up an extra couple seats

in the midterms. What are they gonna do with those seats? Nothing.

Vote to go to war?

Yeah, they were already taking the house, probably.

I like the Massey idea of introducing a declaration of war and seeing exactly who's going to vote for it. I would love that to happen. That would be nice. But that would be like kryptonite. That would be the worst possible.

Don't think that would pass, yeah.

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