In geopolitical strategy, leaders may deliberately maintain conflict or tension with adversaries to prevent them from taking extreme actions that could destabilize the entire system, using controlled engagement as a chess-like approach to preserve the existing power structure rather than allowing enemies to 'flip the table' and destroy the current order.
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Welcome to Geopolitics with Ghost. I am your host McCormack with Ghost of Base Patrick Henry. Today is May 26, 2026.
Uh, this is Battlelands Media. Welcome to the show. Um, yeah, apologies. Didn't end up doing a show on Friday afternoon.
Did a lot of pre-records Friday morning. Too many intended and then time just got away from me. Uh, and I was heading out of town with the kids. So, anyway, but glad to be back. Plenty to discuss. We'll pick up some of the stuff we were going to discuss on Friday and talk about some other things that uh happened since then.
Let's pull up uh the chat.
[snorts] Okay. So, I think um the first thing to discuss is something that happened over the weekend uh that we would not have discussed on Friday. Um and that would be the Tulsi Gabbard story. I mean, there's not a lot to dig into in terms of uh covering it, just kind of mentioning it and acknowledging it and being [clears throat] cognizant of it. Uh Tulsi is someone who I think is extremely important to this whole process and so this is definitely a gut punch to uh see her depart. Um obviously thoughts and prayers to her. um h her her and her husband and their whole family um with the uh diagnosis of the rare form of bone cancer. Um I know there people who are questioning whether or not that's true or not. Uh I mean if they if she says it's true, it's true and we'll just take it take her at at uh her word. There's a lot of people who detractors who um are saying this is just her excuse to get out of the administration because of what's happening with Iran. But I, as we'll discuss, I think that all of the indications are that we're moving towards a resolution on the Iran war front, at least as far as the US is concerned.
And so, the timing of of her leaving now doesn't really make a lot of sense in terms of like her trying to pull the rip cord to get away from um that. If she was going to do that, I think she would have done that like right after the war started around the time that uh um that what's his name left? Uh her her assistant her assistant aid. Um so anyway, uh let's pull up her resignation letter. We'll just look through it real quick and then we'll move on. Um and we'll discuss it a little bit. But let's see what this is a really strange way they have showing this.
Here we go.
Why do they have that thing like that?
Okay. So, dear Mr. President, I'm dearly deeply grateful for the trust you have placed in me um and for the opportunity to lead the office of the director of national intelligence for the last year and a half. Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation effective June 30th, 2026.
My husband Abraham has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At the same time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle. Abraham has been my rock through our 11 years of marriage, standing steadfast through my deployment to East Africa on a joint special operations mission, multiple political campaigns, and now my service in this role. His strength and love has sustained me through every challenge. I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone. While I continue continue in this demanding and timeconsuming position, while we have made significant progress at the ODNID advancing unprecedented transparency and restoring integrity to the intelligence community, I recognize there is still important work to be done. I'm fully committed to ensuring a smooth and thorough transition over the uh over the coming weeks so that you and your your team experience no disruption in leadership or momentum. Thank you. Thank you for your understanding during this deeply personal and difficult time. for our family. I will remain forever grateful to you and to the American people for the profound honor of serving our nation as DNI. With love and aloha Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence.
So, she's still she's still around for another five weeks. Um, and a lot could happen in the next 5 weeks. I mean, we've seen how much narratives change from a day-to-day standpoint. Um there's still the possibility that she could pull the pin on the proverbial grenade and toss it as she's walking out of the room. And that would be of course, in my opinion, uh declassifying and and publishing and disclosing what happened in the 2020 election. I think that could have consequences farreaching um in so many different ways. um not you know the most being like the the most profound in the immediate being the uh discrediting of the Republican party because I think I think the Republican party if they are exposed as having a role in that which I think they will um that could be profound. I also personally this is just my speculation um I think Israel was involved. I mean, when you look at who who um who benefited from Trump leaving office, um well, who was the first person to call Joe Biden and congratulate him on defeating Donald Trump? Um and basically consecrated the coup. That was BB Netanyahu, something Trump said he would never forgive Netanyahu for doing. And it begs the question, if at that moment there were still questions as to whether or not the election results were legitimate, Trump was saying they weren't legitimate. There were lots of people saying they weren't legitimate.
Why would BB Netanyahu rush to judgment if he loved Trump so much and he thought Trump was such a great ally and such a great partner as president? Why would he rush to congratulate Joe Biden if uh if he really wanted Trump to stick around?
if he if he wanted Trump to stick it out and fight and remain in office. And then you look at what Israel accomplished during the Biden administration.
I mean, the October 7th thing, uh, I think that was a false flag, but that basically gave them a blank check to do whatever they wanted in the Middle East, and they're still they're still reaping the benefits of that blank check. And I think that, uh, the idea that the Biden administration tried to stop them is silly. That's that's not what happened.
The Biden administration didn't engage on on a narrative standpoint, but if you look at what the Biden administration was, it was one of the most uh pro-Zionist, pro-Jewish um administrations in history in terms of the of the actual personnel in the in the cabinet. It was like the most I think Jewish Americans, Israeli Americans probably, um ever appointed to a cabinet to a single cabinet. It was like uh I mean you saw Anthony Blinkin when Tony Blinkin when October 7th happened, he went over there and said, "I come to you today not as an American or an American Secretary of State, but as a uh uh as a Jew." He's like, "I'm coming to you as a Jewish man, you know, as a citizen basically of of Israel."
So, I do think that that is a big is big a big part of it. Not. And if we do get that exposure, and I'm not guaranteeing we we will, I think that totally just record scratch stops everything. We can't discuss 2026, the 2026 election.
We certainly can't discuss Iran. Um, you know, assuming Israel was involved, we can't discuss, you know, a war with Iran that benefits Israel. Like, that has to come to a head. I feel like that dynamic that the timing is ripe for that to be exposed because as we are decelerating as we are basically heading for the exit ramp with the with the war in Iran and the neocons are hellbent on remaining staying the course and going to war. um exposing them and their role that they played in this coup against President Trump um I think is just going to absolutely flip over that table and uh and cause all kinds of problems for them. So, we'll see what happens. But, I mean, when we look at Tulsi, let's just look at Tulsi for a second.
Me check on the chat and make sure there aren't aren't any fires I need to put out.
So Tulsi is an interesting character um in this soap opera because not only is she Diana I mean I personally think that she that her and Ron Paul are the two people obviously they come from two different quote unquote political parties. Ron Paul being a Republican and Tulsi Gabbert being a Democrat, right? But I think what make what [clears throat] the consistency in both of them is I think they were very consistent in their messaging. I think that's the parallels between them. Ron Paul what Ron Paul said you know in 2008 he says in 2026 and Tulsi Gabbard I think as far as I know is the same way. Um she didn't she didn't flip-flop. She didn't change her tune. She didn't change her message. Uh even during the first Trump administration she was outspoken against President Trump when it when it appeared that we were going to war in the Middle East. when it appeared we were going to war with Iran after we killed Solommani in 2020, she spoke out against that and said, "Do not do it. Do not escalate this." Um, you know, which if you're not in the administration and you don't know what's going on, I think that's an earnest response is that you're you're if you're an anti-interventionalist, as it says right here on her Wikipedia, you know, she uh she m she has remained true to that throughout her career. Um, what's also interesting is that inuh 17 during Trump's first term, she went and met with Assad. She went to Syria.
She met with Assad. It pissed off all the right people. The Republican party freaked out about it. Um, and that's interesting. I mean, going and meeting with Assad in 2017, um, is extremely interesting when you consider the fact that she is is still to this day, as as far as I understand it, active military. She's still currently active military. Um, she, as it says right here, on July 4th, 2021, she mentioned it in her letter, Gabber was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel while she was deployed to the Horn of Africa, that's East Africa, working as a civil affairs officer in support of a special operations mission. Next, she was given command of the first battalion 354th regiment based in Tulsa, uh, Oklahoma.
Um, now if you back up one, it says on October 12th, 2015, she was promoted from the rank of captain to major at a ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. She continued to serve as a major in the Hawaii Army National Guard until her transferred to the 351st Civil Affairs Command, a California-based United States Army Reserve Unit assigned to the United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations uh operations command in June of 2020. And what makes that notable is if you go look at that what that is. Um the United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command Airborne um was founded in 1985 and is headquartered at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Um composed mostly of US Army Reserve soldiers and units throughout the United States. The size of the command is nearly 13,500 soldiers, which is 70 76% of the Department of Defense's civil affairs forces and 63% of psych So the the majority of both the civil affairs uh from the DoD, which is what she was part of, and the psychological operations forces are part of this uh airborne unit. Um the civil affairs and psychological operations command of the airborne. Um, and as it says down here, [clears throat] it says the Army's active duty special operations, civil affairs and psychological operations units along with the civil affairs and psychological operations force modernization branch proponents continue to fall under the US spee operations command and United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School respectively.
the army component or the I'm sorry the active component civil affairs brigade the 95th civil affairs brigade and the two active component psychological operations groups the fourth psychological operations group that's the fourth SCOP group and the eighth psychological operations group that's the eighth SCOP group fall under uh USA so what what's that to say is uh let's just continue the US Army Reserve uh civil affairs and psychological operations constitute 5% of the US Army Reserves total force but account for approximately 20% of Army Reserve deployments. Reserve civil affairs are deployable specialized forces within the reserve. Reserve soldier often bring civilian expertise and education that is typically not found among active duty soldiers. The projects these elements coordinate are worldwide, but more recently have focused on Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa regions, which is where she was deployed during the Biden administration. And she mentioned that in her letter. So what makes all that interesting is that her command as part of the civil affairs army reserve unit would have been under as I understand it as it appears the four SCOP group. She would have technically been under psychological operations. Uh and that means something I think to this audience uh as we understand it as we look at SCOPS and we look at everything that uh I think President Trump has done under his presidency. Um, and then we look at the organization here. The Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command is a subordinate function of the command of the United States Army Reserve Command.
As of January 2026, the command consists of the following units. Uh, and it lists them out. The Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command at Fort Bragg. Um, and the components of that are are numerous, but one of them, of course, is the 351st Civil Affairs Command in Mountain View, California. that was the one that she was put in charge of, remember in I think it was in 2020.
Yeah, in 2020 she was put in charge of that, the 351st Civil Affairs Command.
Um, and that includes the seventh psychological operations group, uh, the 358th of Civil Affairs Brigade and the 364th Civil Affairs Brigade. So, point is that she's a psychological operations, she's a SCOP soldier, right? Uh, and she was deployed during the Biden administration to East Africa doing something that I've looked into it. It's hard to there's not a lot of information on what she was doing and I mean it's probably class I imagine most of it's classified.
Um point is though is that that puts her in a very unique status when it comes to the administration because I think she's the only person that you could point to and say even has a connection to the four SCOP group to the SC to the to SOF SCOPS um and is still active duty right um and was deployed just a few years ago was deployed to Africa I mean, this is all all of that is really those are all really interesting data points. Um, and how she how she can serve as DNI as active duty is really interesting to me because if she's officially listed as right now she's officially listed I think as a lieutenant colonel.
I would imagine at DNI she would have generals under her command. I mean, I I I don't know nearly enough about the military chain of command to be an expert on this or even be able to really debate this, but um how could she have generals answering to her if she herself wasn't a general? You know, I I wonder what maybe happened off the books that's classified. I don't know. These these are all questions that I've had about her for a while. Um makes sense to kind of express this now that she's ostensibly leaving. We'll see what happens. Um, but you know, she's also I think Bish been extremely consistent in her messaging publicly. I think she's been very loyal to President Trump. Um, and I do think that Joe Kent leaving felt like it was an extension of her going out there and putting narratives out there that at no point I still have been checking nothing Joe Kent has said has been um an attack on President Trump, has been discrediting to President Trump. He has consistently said only President Trump is capable of fixing the situation. Here's how we need to fix it.
Here's what we should expect. Here are the reasons why President Trump is not being allowed to complete to to resolve this Middle East situation. And all the fingers he points are at the Israel lobby, the Republican party, the establishment, the uni, the uni party, all of those things. Um MSAD, the Israeli government. I mean, those are all things that I think he points to, which are things that I independently identify as a problem and a threat to our national sovereignty. So, for those reasons, I think that uh Tulsi Gabbard is extremely interesting. She's a very, very interesting character to me. And so, I hate to see her go.
Hopefully, we haven't seen the la last of her. Um um best wishes to her husband and a quick and swift recovery, full recovery.
Um and I we'll be we'll be interested to see what happens in the next four weeks and what it gets declassified and disclosed.
Okay. So, breaking from that, I guess let's just jump right into the Middle East. We we covered a lot of this on Badlands Daily, so I won't I won't rehash it too much. Um, if you didn't catch Badlands Daily, just go watch the last, I don't know, 30 minutes of Badlands Daily. We talked about this.
Um, but effectively, if we look at we can look at the I mean, the news brief is a good place to to get the recap. Um this is from yesterday's news brief that Trump holding a a call with the Muslim leaders um talking about an Iran peace deal on the table. This is after a week basically of the media insinuating that we were going to see um the Iran war get resumed and that we were going to see um basically no peace and just war. That's what they were saying.
They're saying any minute now, any day now, we were going to get more war. And then they got rugged and Trump came out and said this this post that the White House then put it in this graphic and posted it and said an agreement has largely been negotiated subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran and various other countries as listed.
All those countries were the Muslim countries. Separately, I had a call with Prime Minister BB Netanyahu of Israel which likewise went very well. So he's saying that Israel is being separated from these other countries that are going to finalize a peace deal with Iran. And again, if you if you just read it literally, you can read it both literally and between the lines.
Basically, what he's saying is that Israel was not being considered in this peace process. Um, and then all you have to do is look at the response from the the usual suspects. I mean, Trump putting this out during this moment where he posts out this post that is some random account uh maybe random. I don't know. I'm not familiar with this guy, but saying um this guy says an Iranian president, Iranian president Mass Masud uh Peski and quote, "We are ready to assure the world that we are not seeking nuclear weapons. We are not seeking instability in the region."
Trump just posting that on his true social as he is saying this as he's saying, "Yeah, we're actually working with the Muslims and we're going to make a peace deal with Iran." Um, this is Sunday.
Uh, this is a break from the official narrative that Trump has been running with, which is that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. They want a nuclear weapon. They can't have one. He's now clearly saying that Peskian is saying we are ready to assure the world that we are not seeking nuclear weapons. And this is exactly what Tulsi Gabbard has been saying for years. Uh it's what she has said as as DNI when she testified last year in Congress that there was that all the intelligence seem to suggest they weren't seeking a nuclear weapon. Um they weren't seeking they're not seeking instability in the um in the region. Um, of course, Tel Aviv Leven, um, was freaking out about this, very, very angry, was posting, um, you know, this clip right here, which I went over on Badlands Daily. Let's, uh, we have a little more time on this show, so let's go ahead and play the clip.
Let me uh pull this pull this up the stage. I'm sorry. I wasn't, by the way, I wasn't sharing anything up until this moment. I was just uh I was just running through some of the things that Trump had posted. And just to be clear, um what I was referencing was this post from True Social that the White House put onto a uh graphic. I referenced this post. This is the post, the picture of him or the screenshot that he posted from Trey Yinst, whoever that is, of Peshkian. And then this post from Mark 11 where he says, "Big problem. How about we fix this?" And he's quote posting a Jerusalem Post uh article from Israeli media about this emerging deal and how he's think this is a very big problem. We cannot have peace with Iran.
Um also makes a post about Saudi Arabia being behind 911 that Israel was behind 911 in my opinion. And then this is the post that he's making that we're going to play right now. And so this is the clip that he posted.
>> It doesn't mean America is beholden to them, but there is right now a critical mass of a different constituency abroad.
And that seems to have such a huge impact on US foreign policy. No one's talking about it.
>> He literally said three or four days ago, I've held off for one or two days because this country, this country, and this country have asked me to. Where was the outcry? Where was Megan Kelly sobbing to the masses? Where was Tucker saying we can't be beholden to foreign states? It was crickets. That's such a good point.
>> Yeah. And it's very funny. This stuff is ignored or excused. Listen, I actually think America has to listen to its allies, all of its allies, in a colorblind fashion. That's what makes us a great partner. That's what makes us a great superpower. You know, we can work by with and through allies, and they can help us. And it needs to always be a two-way street. But I just don't understand why have so many in America and so many in the West make this a one-way street. they carve out some kind of additional exception for Israel and then for everybody else they carve out an exemption doesn't mean America is beholden to them but there is right now a critical mass of a different constituency abroad all together and that seems to have such a huge impact on US foreign policy >> yeah well um actually it does appear that we're beholden to Israel because we're starting a war that doesn't really have any national security interest for us uh in Iran um it has all the interest of Israel there's It's very obvious why they want this war to happen. Um and and these people are upset because all the other people, all the other countries in the region, which are he Trump lists out right there. You're talking about Turkey, Jordan, uh um Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, uh Egypt, um Pakistan, right? Um they're not included in the list, but also Syria, Iraq, Lebanon. Um they're they you know um Oman, they all have a vested interest in all this. They don't want to see this, you know, the the UAE, they don't want to see this war continue. None of them want this war to happen because it's like bombs blowing up over their head, bombs hitting their their infrastructure, you know, bombs hitting their country. They don't want this to happen. Just like you don't want a war happening in your neighborhood between, you know, two third parties, right? You don't want a war happening between China and I don't know Russia fight fought in your neighborhood for the exact same reason. It's very very obvious. It's common sense. But these people are upset because our partners right in that region. Turkey also I don't know if I listed Turkey as well.
They don't want this to happen. And so they're saying hey stop doing this. Get us out of this. Pull back. Stop the war.
And instead of listening to these voices, we should just be listening to Israel. That's what they're saying. And so their question is why do these people this foreign influence all you know this is like what 10 countries influencing Trump countries by the way most of which have pledged to invest billions if not trillions of dollars into our economy which Israel has not pledged to do. Um that's the question they're asking. Why do these countries have so much influence on Trump's decision here? And Mark Leven's quote post is great question, great interview. So freaking out, panic. This is full panic. We go back. Um, here's Ted Cruz. Full panic. I'm not going to read the whole post, but he's saying, "I'm deeply concerned about what we are hearing about an Iran deal being pushed by some voices in the administration."
Uh-oh. Um, he talks about what uh, you know, Biden's Rob Mali, the details are still coming out, and I pray the early reports are wrong. Oh, no. But the fact that Biden's Rob Mali is praising the deal is not encouraging.
Um, and then I went and played the video this morning on Badlands Daily. Um, that video is not in the substack for for some reason the in the news brief is not well processed or whatever. It's very skittish. So, let me just play I'll play this version of it. Just a minute and a half, >> I suspect. So, this is Biden's envoy, special envoy to Iran. His name is Robert Mali. Not somebody I'm I'm describing as like a white hat or or a good guy, but speaking truth here. And again, I think Trump has flipped the incentive structure and actually he's provoked, you know, some of these deep state assets into telling the truth because in doing so, they think they're they're weakening Trump. They think that they are exposing Trump's weakness and he the fact that he's beholden to Israel and he's doing things that are not in the national security interest of the of the United States and betraying his base. But listen to what he says here >> to continue to attack Lebanon and Hezbollah.
>> Rob, one big if in all of this is Israel. And the reason why I bring that up is because not only have they made their opposition to a deal with Iran uh clear to this administration, they've also made clear that Iran's demand that the entire region be included in a deal, which means no more war in Lebanon, no more war in Gaza, no more war in Yemen seems to be, at least from the initial responses in Israel, a non-starter.
Israel will says it will continue to reserve the right to operate in all of those countries and territories. Uh and it seems that Iran wants to incorporate them into some kind of comprehensive deal going forward. Is that likely to happen? Is there a scenario? Can you imagine a scenario in which Israel agrees not on the Iran nuclear deal, but on no attacks to Lebanon, no attacks to Gaza, and no attacks on Yemen?
>> No. And I think the way they're gonna find they're going to wiggle out of it and I don't know I don't know what Iran could do about it is that Iran will say they reserve the right to respond to any threat and then they'll define the threat as you know they discovered an arms cash of of of Hezbollah and Lebanon or leaders of Hezbollah who are meeting maybe they're plotting against Israel.
So they will choose any pretext I suspect to continue to attack Lebanon and Hezbollah if they wish to and they will say that that's consistent with the deal. There probably will be a side agreement between the US and Israel.
They would say exactly what I just said and that you intimated that Israel reserves the right to to take action in the face of any threat and it will reserve the right to define that threat.
>> Okay. So then we have a lot of fake news that comes out about this stuff. Um but before we get [clears throat] to the fake news, let's look at just a few more posts from the Peanut Gallery. um one of them being Lindsey Graham. Um if in fact as a result of these negotiations in the Iranian conflict, our Arab and Muslim allies in the region agreed to join the Abraham Accords, it would make this agreement one of the most consequential in the history of the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Pakistan joining the Abraham Accords would be beyond transformative for the region and the world. It is a brilliant move by President Trump to Saudi Arabia and others now is the time to be bold for the future of a new Middle East. I expect as president presed, you will in fact join the Abraham Accords, effectively ending the Arab-Israeli conflict. If you refuse to go down this path as suggested by President Trump, it will have severe repercussions for our future relationships and make this peace proposal unacceptable. Further, it would be seen as by history as a major miscalculation. President Trump, stick to your guns and getting a a good deal with Iran. Equally important, stick to your guns in insisting Saudi Arabia and others uh join the Abraham Accords as part of these negotiations. Again, this is a brilliant proposal by President Trump. This is from two days ago. It was from Sunday.
And then I post, you know, here's how the reality of what actually happened.
And it's from Barack Ravid. Barack Ravid repo. um who again I think Barack Ravid has relayed everything he's told by the Trump administration to his own detriment at some points because he has been accused in recent weeks of like being part of like an insider trading scheme where you know he reports that there's a deal about to break and then people short the oil um you know millions of dollars are shorted on the oil market oil crashes in price these people get rich right they close out their short position and then no deal materializes and then rinse and repeat.
And so Brock Ravid was accused of like being part of that insider trading deal as was Trump and his family. Um and Brock Rav got super triggered and angry about that. But again, I think Trump kind of uses Brevid to like get out narratives. And so whatever I think Trump has a long enough relationship with him and has told him enough stuff that turned out to be true that whatever he tells them, whatever his people tell Rav, Rav's going to report exactly as said because it's the truth, at least as far as he's being told. Um, and I think Trump has used that to his advantage to kind of keep this whole situation in limbo and not allow the narrative to break one way or the other. Um, but what he reported two days ago on Sunday, President Trump told leaders of Arab and Muslim countries during a Saturday conference call that if a deal to end the the Iran war is achieved, he wants their nations to join the Abraham Accords and sign uh peace agreements with Israel. And then he links his story and then he quote posts that and says the leaders, especially those of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Pakistan who don't have formal diplomatic relations with Israel were surprised by Trump's request. quote, "There was silence on the line and Trump joked and asked if they were still there," one of the US officials said. So again, I don't think Barack Ravit is making this up. I think this is what was told to him. Whether that's what actually happened, that can be debated, but I think this is like when a US official tells Barack Rav that, I think he's relaying exactly what he's being told by somebody in President Trump's orbit. Um, and this, by the way, tracks to me. To me, this tracks I do not expect any of these countries to to be eager to join the Abraham Accords because why would they? Number one, Saudi Arabia has made long clear that their red line is a two-state solution.
Without a Palestinian state with 1967 borders, there is no Abraham Accords.
There is no normalization with with Israel. Israel was like the ball was totally in Israel's court. That was September of 2023. That was the ball was 100% in their court. Saudi said, "We are ready to do this. All you have to do is agree to recognize Palestine and we can move forward and we can have peace in the region." In Israel, instead, we got October 7th. That was the whole reason that I predicted to Canon. I said, "Something's going to happen here.
There's no way that that the pe the players involved are going to allow this to happen. They're not going to allow, you know, Palestine to become a country.
Um, something's going to happen."
October 7th happened and then the rest is history.
Saudi Arabia has been very firm. We are not doing this without a Palestinian state. Even now with a Palestinian state, I would find it hard to believe that these countries are just going to suddenly normalize with Israel and trust them. Um but that's their baseline. Their baseline is their baseline is um uh a two-state solution. And so now we have um again we've had all these reports that that are coming out that um all these reports coming out that Saudi Arabia is about to normalize with Israel. That's what all of like the media is saying. All the media is like, "Oh yeah, oh yeah, we're definitely going to normalize with Israel. We're so happy and eager." They've been saying this for years, by the way. It's always a lie. Every single time they come out and say this, it's always a lie. But it's what the Zionist controlled, Israeli controlled media always says.
It's always meant to undermine Saudi Arabia and to make them look look like the bad guy in the eyes of the Arab world, the Muslim world. Um, and multiple times over the past few days.
So, here is the Saudi Post, CNN network.
Um, let's see. CNN network. This is from yesterday. US network CNN citing a Saudi source. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will not normalize relations with Israel except after the existence of an irreversible path toward establishing an independent Palestinian state. That has been their principled position. And they're not they're not relenting on it.
If he relents on it at this point, by the way, NBS, he looks weak. There's no way that the Muslim world will ever trust him again if he relents on this.
Like he has no choice. even no matter what he wants to do personally, if he relents on this, he will never be respected again as a leader because he's made this very clear. This is this is the red line. Uh the next post, CNN network quoting an American source, US President Donald Trump briefly touched upon the Abraham Accords during his communications with Arab and Muslim leaders and did not raise them as a condition for reaching an agreement with Iran. Um, again, the Saudi Post quoting is Israeli channel N12 citing a regional source, President or Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman stated during recent talks that he had with Western officials that there is no possibility of reaching an agreement with the Netanyahu government as the Saudis have repeatedly clarified that any step toward reproachment with Israel must include a clear commitment to establishing a Palestinian state. Um, US President Donald Trump referring to Saudi Arabia's stance on the Palestinian issue. We understand the the reasons for the rejection of normalization with Israel by one or two states and we realize that this position is linked to specific considerations and convictions.
Um, then this is from this morning I guess there would be evening or afternoon but it says the times of Israel. This is quoting the times of Israel. Saudi position which links normalization to a clear and irreversible path toward the establishment of of a stable Palestinian state has remained steadfast despite repeated external pressures and regional instability. And the kingdom emphasizes the phrase clear and irreversible path which reflects Riad's caution towards symbolic gestures and vague reassurances.
Um and then again from Bloomberg quoting Bloomberg uh Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman turns the fallout of war into strategic Saudi gains. the details. Uh yeah, I think Bloomberg is saying that they're they are uh getting rich off the oil.
Um let's see.
So again, quoting Israeli channel in 12 citing a regional source, NBS stated during recent talks that there's no possibility of reaching an agreement. So you get the point. This is like over and over and over and over and over again, it's being reiterated. And yet, if you go check Israeli media, like if you go check like Zionist media, the mainstream media, they're going to tell you that it's imminent, that Saudi Arabia is about to normalize with Israel, even though they they keep saying, "Uh, no, we're not. No, we're not. No chance."
Um, they're also quoting a tactical report website, whatever that is, specializing in political and defense affairs. Saudi Arabia and the United States enter the final stage of the nuclear agreement and joint efforts to finalize the formulations related to future nuclear fuel cycle rights. Let's check that out and see if uh that's actually true.
The Saudi Post um account has been pretty accurate. I mean, they seem to be just recycling headlines from other and they they at least name the the source of their post, which most people don't do that. Most people just say, "This is what's happening. Trust me, bro." Um, so yeah, that's that is uh it's very clear Saudi Arabia is not going to do that. And yet Lindsey Graham is out there saying, "Well, of course Saudi Arabia is going to do that. You have to do it." Well, wait a minute. Why does Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the Arabs and the Muslims and the Pakistanis and the and Turkey, why do they have to be the ones to compromise on their on their principles and make peace with Israel?
Why doesn't Israel have to compromise on its principles at all and make peace with the Muslims? It makes a lot more sense for them to go that way. Um, let's see. We have this here's the tactical report article from today. Saudi Arabia new nears nuclear deal without permanent enrichment limits and it's behind a payw wall. Of course it is.
Um let me ask for any other any other sources on that because I don't I don't know about this tactical report uh who these clowns are. They could be good, they could be bad. I don't know. I I don't know who they are.
But while I wait for that, we will go back to Yeah. And what I noticed, by the way, is the um I think I posted about this too.
You know what the source was of a lot of these article like a lot of these ideas that Saudi was going to betray their principles and make peace? It was the Middle East eye. The Middle East Eye was like one of the outlets pushing this.
Middle East Eye, by the way, is based in London. It was created by the Muslim Brotherhood by MI6.
It is absolutely a five eyes cutout media propaganda outlet. It is not at all a real news outlet. It is certainly isn't like a quote unquote Muslim Middle East outlet. It is a Londonbased Muslim Brotherhood MI6 propaganda outlet that puts out disinformation and misinformation. Um, let's see.
So, looks like Brookings put out maybe an article about that arms control um an outlet called armscontrol.org.
Borg that's from March of 2023 and then the Brookings is from 2024.
Yeah. So yeah, I this tactical report that just might be some clickbait stuff.
I I don't see anything that's advancing. I think that's probably true.
I think that we are going to see like a normalization deal like a a you know the final stages of the nuclear deal that Trump and NBS signed back in when was it was it November? I think that's when he came and visited the US. uh they signed like he said I'm giving you a nuclear deal. Um I think we're we are going to see that happen. But if we go back to the clickbait on this and the responses um let's see I think Burning Bright wrote a write up on this. Yeah. So Burning Bright I I did that post that take on Monday. I was the I'm the editor on the Monday news brief. If you're not reading that, you should. Um, and then I included because Burning Bright separately wrote up his own take on um, Trump coming out and countering the critics because all these critics, Levan, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, all the usual suspects were coming out and criticizing this rumored deal. And then Trump comes out and he uh posted he first he posted about one of the worst deals ever made by our country was the Iran nuclear deal put forth in signed into existence by Barack Hussein Obama and the rank amateurs of the Obama administration.
Um he then came out a second time uh second post and he said if I make a deal with Iran it will be a good and proper one not like the one made by Obama which gave Iran massive amounts of cash and a clear and open path to to a nuclear weapon. Our deal is the exact opposite, but nobody has seen it or knows what it is. It isn't even fully negotiated yet. So don't listen to the losers who are critical about something they know nothing about. Unlike those before me who should have solved this problem many years ago, I don't make bad deals. President DJT. And again, he he's talking in my opinion about Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Mark Leaven. That's who he's calling out there when he says that the losers are the people who are questioning whether or not he's actually going to make a real deal. And then of course this led to the response from Israel while this was happening while we slept on on um on Sunday night. The response from Israel was operation arrows of fury.
Standby for processing. Just waiting it to come up. So, operation uh Israel just launched operation arrows of fury. Schools closing across northern Israel tomorrow.
Beirut evacuating tonight. The IDF homeront command is telling its own civilians to prepare for what is coming.
This is either Netanyahu trying to sabotage. This is from Mario Nefal and he says this is either Netanyahu trying to sabotage the deal or he's trying to cause as much damage as possible before ending the war at Trump's orders. Um Trump can push for peace. He can't stop the next 48 hours. Um, and let me see what this video is that he posts.
Yeah, I I don't know what that's I I don't know what that's supposed to be, but um but yeah, this is what was widely being uh what was widely being reported is called the operation um arrows of fury or arrows of fire. I think some people were calling it arrows of arrows of fire. Operation Arrows of Fire. Um, and that led to Itar Binge coming out, the national security minister, and calling for Israel to cut electricity to Lebanon.
Let's just I I'll read what his uh statements are here. This is from yesterday. He says, "We are not prepared to accept, not ready to accommodate. We are not willing to continue uh to continue the battles, but rather want to defeat them. The electricity in Lebanon needs to be turned off to conquer the echo of the Zahara Zaharana Rani even more and return to I think he's talking about Hezbollah and return to a fierce war. Um the state of Israel cannot absorb and contain absorb and feed absorb and feed. I I tell the head of the government, "Stop it now. This time with all your might." He's talking about Netanyahu.
Yeah. Yeah. And so then there was also reports of him I think he came out and he said uh he told Netanyahu to stand on the table and tell and put Trump in his place.
Yeah. So here's uh the quote is I call Netanyahu call Trump. Go to him. Bang on the table in front of him and make clear the state of Israel is not willing not willing to accept this and not willing to tolerate this. that that's what I think the broken quote was that we just got. Um but we but it's absolutely understood that there is a major military campaign happening in Lebanon right now.
Netanyahu orders Israeli media to intensify Lebanese Lebanon attacks to move the target Hezbollah could further complicate indirect peace talks between the US and Iran. Um, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the Israeli Israel Defense Forces to intensify the strikes against Hezbollah and Lebanon to deliver what he described as as a decisive blow to the armed group. The escalation could further complicate indirect talks between the US and Iran. As Tran has stated that the Israeli military must end its operation against Hezbollah in order for a ceasefire with Washington to be extended, US President Donald Trump previously said Israel should take should only take surgical military action in Lebanon. In a video message on Monday, Netanyahu insisted that Israel is at war with Hezbollah and that the country's authorities are not taking our foot off the gas. Uh, quote, "On the contrary, I I have instructed them, the IDF, to press the pedal even harder." He said, "Hezes attacking us with drones, but what this requires of us is now is to intensify the blows, increase the force," Netanyahu stressed. Shortly afterward, the Israeli military announced more strikes against Hezbollah targets in the Baka Valley in eastern Lebanon as well as other parts of the country. Netanyahu's order came despite the ongoing ceasefire between the Jewish state and the Lebanese government in Beirut, which was agreed in midappril after more than a month of fighting and was extended earlier in May. The truce reduced the intensity of hostilities but did not stop them completely with Israel continuing its bombardment of Lebanese territory and Hezbollah responding with UAV attacks. Um yeah and then it goes on to quote the itar Bengavir quotes that we just read.
So let's see we then have so here is the new yellow line that they are trying to establish in Lebanon.
Uh, so we have I think this blue this blue line I believe is the current border the UN blue line if I'm not mistaken.
I think that's the the border between Israel and Lebanon. Let me let me fact check that real quick.
But you can see basically the yellow part is where they already occupy. He says Israeli forces have established a yellow line in southern Lebanon similar to an Israeli military measure in the besieged Gaza Strip, but then now they're pushing forward towards uh Beirut. So they're saying that this new action is in the Baha Valley, which is all the way up here basically at the same parallel as uh Beirut. So they've moved significantly up um north north toward Beirut.
Let me just verify this blue. I think this blue line is the border, but we just want to make sure that I'm not putting out fake news.
All right. Where's that Where's that blue line?
So, there's that.
Yeah, that blue line is the So, here's the Latani River right there and then there's the blue lines. Take off the There it is. So, yeah. So, you can see the Latani River and then you can see that this this the blue line is the border between Lebanon and So, yeah. So, they're moving up and they're trying to um basically just take more of Lebanon.
So this is absolutely in my opinion a subversive effort um by Israel to try to subvert what Trump is doing there. Uh and I think again I think the way this all ends when it ends anyone's guess but I think we'll probably see Trump just pull the rip cord and get out and uh you know make a really big deal. lots of pump and circumstance about this great peace deal with Iran. Um, and how how much of a of a tremendous success it has been and how big of a deal it is for the neocons and for all the people who have longo opposed Iran.
I think that's what we're probably going to see him how we're going to see him handle it. You know, what a great deal making this uh exercise this has been.
Um, we got everything we wanted out of it. Like we're going to be uh, you know, we bombed Iran. We we we prevented them from getting a nuclear weapon. We've made peace with them and now we're getting out. Like, we're good. Um I was just checking Trump's true social to see if anything had been posted regarding this. And no, he hasn't posted he hasn't really uh posted anything. Um since that post, since those posts we already read. Um, yeah. So, I I, you know, he's just post he's posted a bunch of like memes and stuff and articles and posts about, you know, trust Trump, stay with me, the man who saved America.
Um, no rhinos. Like, this one's interesting. No rhinos. Repost to make the point clear. Yeah, the master negotiator. Game over deep state.
Um, this one's interesting. US attorney in Miami sends messages to deep state with indictment against ex- prosecutor.
So let's see you charged against former assistant US attorney Carmen Mercedes Linberger carried more than 20 years in prison.
Yeah. So this is related in less than in less than one week. The US attorney in Miami supervising the probe of Obama Biden era government weapon weaponization secured indictments against Cuba communist dictator Rahu Castro and an alleged and an alleged money launderer for Venezuelan strongman Nicholas Maduro. But it was Jason Reading Quinonus uh request for an indictment against one of his own former federal prosecutors for trying to steal a sealed classified report from Jack Smith's investigation of President Donald Trump that may have sent the latter shock wave through the government. The charges against former assistant US attorney Carmen Mercedes Linberger carried mo more than 20 years in prison and put on notice the current and former FBI agents intelligence community spies and prosecutors who whose conduct is currently being examined by a grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida. Quinones made the referral to the Florida District of the US Attorney's Office and let them secure the indictment to avoid a conflict of interest. But the message was unmistakable. quote, "It is it's not only a message to any prosecutor. It's a message to any government employee that you have an obligation when you take you take an oath to work for the government and you take that oath to support and defend the Constitution and to do your duties well and faithfully and we take that here in the Southern District of Florida very seriously," Quinones told Just News in a wide-ranging interview.
uh in Fort Pierce where Linberger worked with special assistant US attorney Joe Deanova is exploring whether a decadel long pursuit of Trump by Obama Biden era intel and and law enforcement officials amounted to criminal conspiracy to violate the the president's and his followers civil rights. Uh Limeberger played a role in one part of that pursuit, assisting from her Fort Pierce office Smith's probe into classified memos found during the raid of Trump's Mara Lago home.
Um, yeah. And so this is all related to, I think, the Maraago raid. And I think we're going to see a lot more come of this.
Um, and that'll be really, really interesting. Let's get back here and we will take a break here. Let's hit some ads.
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All right, welcome back to Geopolitics with Ghost. I'm your your host, Gordon McCormack, the ghost of base Patrick Henry. This is Badlands Media, May 26th, 2026, and we are entering hour two of the show. Thanks for joining us. Hit the thumbs up, share it with the people you know and love. Um, yeah. So, I I saw I know that uh Canon this morning played a clip or um of uh Mark Lean freaking out about what Netanyahu is facing at home, right? That he's facing all this political pressure that um all these people are trying to cast him as the bad guy that they're that they're trying to oust him from office um etc. So here is uh one of his buddies apparently. This is from Jerusalem Post.
Um this is from writer Yal Meed and he said, "I would be happy if a military coup overthrew Netanyahu says PM's former friend." Uh, writer Yal Meed, a former friend of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told Benny Ziffer, editor of Haaret's literary supplement and an associate of the Netanyahu family on 103 FM on Tuesday morning that he would prefer if his cats were in charge of Netanyahu and that he would be happy for a military coup. Meed began this conversation by commenting on Netanyahu's Monday night in va uh visit to uh Hadasa Hospital in Jerusalem.
quote, "I'm truly more convinced about the soldiers who arrive at the hospital at night uh near where I live, Rambam Hospital. Soldiers who are seriously wounded and will suffer their whole lives from Netanyahu's insane adventures. So, the condition of his teeth doesn't move me." Um, Mead then expressed shock over the conduct of the campaign in Lebanon. Quote, "The deterioration of the country is unbelievable. Now there is a situation in which a completely pointless war is continuing in Lebanon and we are absorbing Hezbollah's blows after we pushed it back decades and now it is uh slaughtering our soldiers and the army doesn't stop. Um I would be happy if there's a military coup against Netanyahu. We cannot continue this madness. How much longer one family controls the country. I would be happy if there was a military coup in Israel.
I would be happy if my cat took power instead of BB. It would be better for the country. This BB has decided that he is destroying us. He doesn't care what will happen to the country after he leaves.
Um, Zifer defended Netanyahu in response. Quote, I am concerned by more important things. Unlike those people who follow every step of the prime minister, I have a life of my own. From time to time, I take an interest in how BB and Sarah are doing, but it's not an obsession. Quote, people follow every step he takes medically and not out of empathy, but out of an obsession. It shows a sickness to these people. Um, it is not mentally healthy. It is the kind of disorder to run after every little peep from the prime minister. Dental treatment, teeth cleaning, history proves that the prime minister's functions perfectly well. Uh, MED replied by questioning whether Netanyahu should be allowed to continue leading the country. Should we let him act until he brings about the final destruction of the country? Do you see our situation?
Do you see the bereaveved families? Do you see what is happening in the military cemeteries? Anyone who thinks these um these upcoming elections will remove BB from the stage of history is completely mistaken. This man is so determined to leave the stage of history in blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
Yeah. So, the division inside of uh of Israel is very real. Um and then there's a video that I can play real quick while I pull up the next article or while I make sure we have the next article. Um, which is Oh, that's interesting. We We'll definitely want to uh look at Carrill Demetriv's post right there. But I wanted to pull up this one that I had had reposted.
Um, this guy the guy who posted this looks like I mean I don't know if he's like a liberal, like if he's like a lunatic liberal or what, but the information he conveyed was pretty spot-on and it was something that we've been covering here for a while or I've been talking about for a while. Um, and that is well, while we're waiting on that, we can we can look at watch this one. This one's a good one. The meltdown over Trump's uh peace deal. This is Israeli media.
>> [clears throat] >> Yeah. Um and so I couldn't couldn't find the video that I was going to play, but uh what the guy was responding to, we can I can certainly pull that up. He was responding to um to this report. The Israeli economy in the first quarter of uh 2023 or I'm sorry 2023 20 the first quarter of 2026 has shrank by 3.3%.
And just to give you um some context Oh no sound. Okay, hold on. I'm sorry.
Thank you, Adrian. Adrian just texted me. Yeah, this is a Streamyard issue, guys. I'm sorry. Streamyard, when you share your screen, it just decides periodically that it's not going to it's just going to cut off your sound. So, let me uh pull that back up because that was worth listening to.
>> Where do we tell our kids that we have failed yet again? It's embarrassing.
>> 40 days of war, 40 days of ceasefire, thousands of lives lost. the largest disruption to the world energy supply since the 70s and then the next question is what has Trump and Israel actually gotten from this war?
Well, unfortunately not much. I mean, yes, we got rid of some I mean some of the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but from where I'm standing, it's not enough. The issue is that Iran got what he wanted. Really, we have we have an issue. We need to free the Iranians. We need to make sure that Israel doesn't bear the brunt of this war. And unfortunately, it looks like it's going it's going to be this. Now, the regime in Iran can claim victory. Yes, they can. Unfortunately, if the regime doesn't collapse in the next few weeks, I don't know what's going to happen because the longer you wait, the more effort we would have to exert in order to win. And that is a shame because more people will have to die. And I I believe that like me, I'm sick of seeing Jewish blood being spilled in the name of terror so that people could feel good about themselves and anti-ionism. I'm ashamed to say that we are giving money to regime that will kill more people. So I don't understand I don't understand how we can talk about humanitarian aid when we know that this money will will be spent in building bullets and weapons that will kill Iranian people, good Iranian people. So that that makes me angry. Second of all, the biggest danger that Israel is losing France and we're not making any new ones. Europe is lost.
I myself leaving because there's no point in staying in a country that wants me dead and who's unwilling to protect me and millions of other Jews um across Europe.
So what do we do? Do we make new friends in South America? I would hope so. We need to consolidate our bases. They are dwindling, diminishing. It's a shame. Uh Israel has seen worse. We will come out of it stronger. I I believe that. I believe in us. But I'm worried. I'm worried because as a mother, what do we tell our kids that we have failed yet again? It's embarrassing at the end. I mean, we are a great people. So, I would love for our lovely prime minister to maybe reconsider, revisit, uh, and for Donald Trump to actually do something about it. He promised to do it.
>> All right, Katherine Paris Shakdam, thank you very much.
>> Yeah, you love to see it. um absolutely freaking out because we don't want to continue fighting a war that serves no strategic interest to us. And all the signaling from President Trump is that we are getting out and we're going to make peace with these people. Um and that's totally unacceptable to um most of the Israeli political spectrum. Uh most of them are not okay with this.
So, let's go to Cuba because we have in Cuba this indictment.
Um, I think we talked about this. I can't remember if we talked about this on Tuesday or not, but um when Cuba Let's see when did when did that indictment come? The indictment came last week.
Yeah, so it came last week. Um Rahu Castro Castro indicted. What's next for Cuba? charges uh against the former Cuban president mirror the pretext used by the US to kidnap Nichol uh Nicholas Maduro. The indictment of former Cuban President Rahu Castro by the US Department of Justice Department marks the latest escalation in a uh uh Washington's pressure campaign against Havana. Is President Trump trying to repeat the Maduro playbook?
Unsealed on Wednesday, the indictment accuses Castro of ordering the the shooting down of two American planes off the coast of Cuba in 1996. Castro and five of his officials are charged with conspiracy to kill US nationals, destruction of aircraft, and four counts of murder, one for each of the Cuban Americans killed in the shootown.
Castro, who was Cuba's defense minister at the time of the incident, participated in a conspiracy that ended the Cuban military aircraft, firing missiles at those civilian planes, and killing four Americans. Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanch said at a press conference in Miami on Wednesday, and it goes on to explain the background.
Then down here, uh, will Castro ever see a US courtroom? There's no indication that Castra, who is now 96 years old, will ever appear in an in American court.
Cuba has limited diplomatic relations with the US, let alone an extradition treaty. And the Cuban government is highly unlikely to hand over Castro, a former president and revolutionary hero, to the US, where he would face the death penalty if found guilty. um asked about the likelihood of Castro facing trial in the US. Blanch told reporters, "We expect that he will show up here by his will or by another way." Um the indictment quote only reveals the arrogance and frustration that the representatives of the empire feel toward the unyielding resolve of the Cuban Revolution. Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel said in the statement on X, this is a political maneuver devoid of any legal foundation aimed solely at padding the fabricated dossier they used to justify the folly of a military aggression against Cuba.
Um, and so again I I mean who knows what's going to happen with Cuba because there's a lot of different we have a lot of different templates now we can look at. We can look at Iran. We can look at Venezuela.
We can look at Mexico. Um, my guess based on a lot of the uh the rumors and the supposition and uh the information that's out there is that we're going to see this guy's grandson, Ralito, become the president of Cuba. He's not the president of Cuba right now. He's like whatever in his late 30s, early 40s. Um, apparently he's relatively pro- capitalist. He's not he's not a uh he's not a socialist. He's not he's not a true believer like a lot of his elders.
Um this Canel uh Diaz Canel the president has only been president since 2021 and it looks like the positioning is that we're going to get C the Castro family returning to Cuba. This is going to be this is going to flip out. Uh the the Hispanic segment of the Neocon contingent is going to flip out over this. are going to absolutely freak out when we allow Castro's grandson to become um the leader of Cuba. Um yet from Trump's perspective, a pragmatic negotiator doesn't, you know, is not ideologically driven. to be ideologically driven and say, "Well, because we don't like this guy's family and because his family is guilty of whatever crimes we've accused him of doing. Um, he there's not blood liable and he is guilty by association, by relation, and he cannot be pre president either versus this guy is on the ground there. This guy actually understands the the issues. This guy is reasonable. he will be a good partner if we allow him to enter power um and we can work with him to normalize relations with Cuba and move forward and kind of just bury the hatchet of what's happened in the past. That's a pragmatic approach, but there's too many emotions and too many feelings and too much propaganda over the past century to uh to I think bring people to that conclusion immediately. Just like with Maduro, the only way to deal with Maduro in Venezuela was to get rid of Maduro, to get to knock him to to remove him from the from the situation and then normalize with the rest of his government and say, "All right, his government is good. We're now great allies with them. Let's move forward."
That's exactly what happened. We're now seeing the same thing with Iran with um, you know, a little bit of a war narrative mixed in there. Maybe some actual kinetic warfare mixed in there as well. Um, but we are going to probably see Trump say that Iran is a great ally of ours. Now, um, so that brings us now to this to this uh story. The West planning to use former ISIS militants against Iran.
This is a narrative that we've seen before, by the way. They did this back in 2023 when they um put a bunch of ISIS fighters in Syria on planes and flew them to Ukraine to fight the Russians.
So, it says the jihadists are being moved from prisons in Syria. It's the exact same thing we saw in 2023.
ISIS fighters from prisons in Syria being shipped over to um being shipped over to Ukraine to fight the Russians.
Western spy agencies are intending to use Syrian militants as a proxy force against Iran, Russian Federal Security Service Chief Alexander Bhortnikov has said the jihadists who fought for Islamic State, formerly ISIS and other terrorist groups are being removed from their detention facilities in Syria to special camps in Iraq. Bort Bort Bortn Nikov said during uh a meeting of the of the security chiefs from the Commonwealth of Independent States in Russia's Urk Urkust region on Tuesday, quote, "The history of Islamic State began with similar Iraqi prison complexes under the protection of Western Coalition intelligence agencies." He stressed, "The CIS was established in 1991 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union to pro promote economic, political, and security cooperation between members. It currently includes nine nations Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belellarus, Kazakhstan, uh, Kyrgystan, Russia, Tajikistan, Modulva, and Yuzbekiststan.
The actions of Western spy agencies also pose a danger to members of the organization as they released militants including um, included individuals from CIS countries who fought in the Islamic State and other terrorist groups and later ended up in Syrian prisons.
Bornikov reported or warned they can be used not only across the Middle East but also in their home countries. He added undoubtedly the escal quote undoubtedly the escalation of the Iranian conflict and the involvement of an increasing number of parties in it is is threatening to destabilize the entire Islamic world. The FSB chief stressed indirect negotiations are currently ongoing between the US and Iran amid a fragile truce which was established in early April after a month of intense hostilities infil initiated by the Americans and the Israelis. Meanwhile, Tran continues to prevent the ships of Washington's allies from sailing through the straight of Hormuse which accounts for 20 some 25% of the global crude oil trade while the US maintains its own blockade of of Iranian ports. On Monday, Iran's top negotiator Muhammad Bajir uh Galifbuff uh and foreign minister Abbas Iraqi reportedly arrived in Doha for talks with Qatar's prime minister on a potential peace deal with the US.
However, both sides downplayed hopes of a swift breakthrough with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio saying that the that Washington was willing to give diplomacy a chance before deciding whether to deal with Iran in another way. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ismael uh Begai uh said on Monday that the fact that the sides were able to reach common ground on some issues does not mean that signing of an agreement is imminent. Um yeah then there's another story here of the US planning to slash NATO contributions. This is the continuation um this is the continuation of uh what the pattern we're seeing where we're pulling troops out of Europe. We are downsizing NATO. We're cutting their budget. Says the US has told NATO's European members that it will reduce its military contributions to the block as Washington's military planners set their sights on China. Dare Spigel reported on Tuesday, delivered by senior Pentagon adviser Alexander Valz Green at a confidential NATO meeting in Brussels last week, the message from Washington marks the latest step in the US uh President Donald Trump's slow disengagement from Europe. Trump has reportedly drawn up a naughty and nice list of NATO members based on their support for his policies and earlier this earlier this month announced that he would withdraw 5,000 US troops from Germany. I believe that's already happened. Um, I've seen video suggesting that it was happening, but you know, videos can be faked. Um, according to dear Spigel, uh, Veles Green told NATO members that the US will drastically reduce its commitments to the NATO force model, the contingent of troops and equipment that the block can deploy on short notice. The US will cut the number of fighter jets available to NATO by by a third and significantly reduce the number of strategic bombers and warships. The newspaper reported NATO will also receive no American submarines or drones, leaving its European members to provide this hardware themselves. Veles Green reportedly said, "It is unclear how many, if any, US troops will be pulled from the NATO force model." Um, okay. And then we have this feature article from RT. This is an interesting contrast to what we just read because they're basically saying that, you know, the excuse it's being given is that we are pulling money and troops away from Europe so we can redirect them towards China.
Yet this headline, Trump's China strategy is closer to Kissinger than Biden. An interview with with Jeang Leen um explores why Trump may seek a broader bargain with China and what it could mean for Taiwan, Russia, and the EU. Um, this is an interesting article in timing because we just did Henry Kissinger on Monday night on the Book of Trump with Colonel Tanner Watkins. Um, where we went through the history of Henry Kissinger and the role that he played in shaping the modern world. Probably one of the most significant individual people in shaping the modern geopolitical landscape. specifically his role in organizing a secret meeting between Richard Nixon and China in 1972 which basically paved the way for China to be brought into the World Trade Organization in the 1990s under Bill Clinton which was also facilitated by Henry Kissinger. Um you know Henry Kissinger largely responsible for the exporting of our manufacturing base from the United States to China. Um which basically gutted our economy and took us from an actual economy that produced things to an economy of speculation and gambling where banks basically take our um pension funds in our uh 401ks and they gamble them on the market and when they lose they are then bailed out by the taxpayers. Uh so this article says US President Donald Trump's arrival in China this week is being treated as far more than another diplomatic photo opportunity. Relations between chi Washington and Beijing remain tense.
Competition between the two powers stretches across almost every domain.
And yet both sides appear increasingly aware that uncontrolled confrontation would carry enormous costs. Against that backdrop, the prospect of a broader geopolitical bargain is once again entering the discussion. According to Jing to Jang uh Langen, visiting professor at East China Normal University and research fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington, Trump isn't approaching China in the same ideological spirit that defined the Biden administration. The atmosphere in Washington, he argues, has shifted noticeably. He spoke to uh Theodore Lucianov, the editor-inchief of Russia and global affairs and and research director at the at the vault at the Valdai International Discussion Club. Um, and this guy Theodore uh Lucianov is the guy who I always love reading normally like Gart I'll read like the first paragraph of one of his op-eds because he always very accurately I think frames what's happening. like he was the guy who said months ago that Trump is not solving problems in American politics. He's merely turning the volume down to the extent that it's becoming very obvious how American politics actually operates so that you can just clearly see what they're doing.
So they can't hide behind their lies and hide behind, you know, the appearance of a dialectic, a huggalen dialectic of a Republican and Democrat. It's really just a uni party. Very, very smart guy.
Um, so he asked, "What are the economic objectives of China and the US?" And this guy says, "The economy is undoubtedly a bargaining chip. China wants fewer restrictions, greater market access, and perhaps a reduction in barriers in the high-tech sector, which is a key priority. The mood is competitive, but judging by the mood in Washington, the Trump team is more is much more consiliatory than the Biden administration, even in the high-tech sector." Um so the guy uh so the interviewer then asks but in the case of the United States there are no illusions regarding relations with China or are some changes still possible? And the professor responds of course there they are possible. We might even be talking about a big deal which is exactly what Trump wants. Of course there are no there's no guarantee in there uh that there will actually be able to reach one. By a big deal, the Trump administration means an agreement that goes beyond the economy and touches on geopolitics. That is the politics of the great powers. There are two key issues Trump would like to discuss with China. The first is how to stabilize the situation in the Taiwan Strait. Stabilized precisely because under the Biden administration, the balance was seriously disrupted. Let me remind you that the Biden that Biden made four statements deviating from the principle of strategic ambiguity regarding Taiwan.
Um that's why Trump is proceeding cautiously. He wants to conclude a genuine agreement. But I do not know whether this will take the form of a joint statement or some other format, but it is clear that he intends to take action. For China, even limited progress on the Taiwan issue would be a significant achievement. It would mean that the US would adopt a tougher stance against Taiwanese independence. Um says, "Previously, the phrasing we do not support was used and it left room for maneuver. In other words, roughly speaking, we the Americans don't support it. But if the Taiwanese themselves want it, that is their business. If, however, the United States were to adopt the stance of us against them, that would be an entirely different approach. It implies a willingness under certain circumstances to take action. To work with China to prevent Taiwanese independence. This issue is currently on the negotiating table. Whether they will reach an agreement is another matter.
It's by no means certain. There's serious opposition in the US Congress, but for China, the issue is of the utmost importance. The second point is Trump's favorite idea of the Grand Triangle, Moscow, Beijing, Washington.
And it seems to me that he takes this very seriously. The only foreign policy expert Trump really listened to was Henry Kissinger. He held him in in very high regard. Kissinger advised him um as far back as his first term in office. If this triangle is stable from a from a strategic point of view, everything else is secondary, including the European Union. Kissinger didn't attach much importance to the EU at all. remember his famous quote which Trump likes which partner is the most difficult not a rival but an ally. Um I think Trump will raise the subject of this triangle at some point in his dialogue with China.
And that was one of the things we discussed in the Kissinger episode is that Kissinger was extremely pragmatic almost in like a detrimental sense where he didn't consider morality. He didn't he he certainly didn't consider the will of the people. Basically what he said was if rulers agree the rulers of various countries agree on a system on a political system a geopolitical balance that's the just and legitimate geopolitical balance and system um meaning if a bunch of kings in Europe decide that it's going to be monarchy in Europe then Europe is a collection of monarchies doesn't matter if there is a ground swell of self of desire ire for self-governance, democratic revolution, etc. If the rulers of the country want authoritarianism, they will have authoritarianism and that is the legitimate justified system. So I think what Kissinger is saying here or what he said to Trump before at least what was reported was that if you can normalize with Russia and China um and make peace with them um then that will become the new world order the new geopolitical balance uh and in Europe Europe no longer matters the Middle East becomes a lot less important um etc. I think in a lot of ways he's right. Like like I also think he he was right about the Congress of Vienna where all of these former aristocrats, former kings came together and said we need we we need to restore monarchy to the to Europe and get rid of all these democratic you know populist revolutions. Um I mean Kissinger wasn't wrong about that about the pragmatism.
It's just it was very like immoral and I would say evil like the the the philosophical outlook on it. Uh this I don't feel the same way of obviously we talk about the sovereign alliance.
Kissinger is describing the sovereign alliance. It's just the sovereign alliance. I think Kissinger's view would be Russia, China and the United States coming together in like a trilateral commission framing um where the existing deep state is elevated and basically codified and blessed by the populist leader President Trump versus um a a sovereign alliance to overthrow that that deep state and destroy it which I think is what is happening what is going to Um, again, Kissinger, I think, died in like 20 When did Kissinger die? 2021.
So, he didn't even live to see I don't think he even lived to see the um invasion of Ukraine, but 2023. So, he did he did live to see the invasion of Ukraine, but I don't recall him necessarily commenting on it. I don't know what his health was like at the at the end of his life. Um, okay. So now let's go to let's go to um well let's talk about let's talk about the the the game of chess that I think is happening here. Um there's a few different there's a few other smaller storylines that I'm tracking but um rather than spin our wheels talking about all that stuff. Let's talk about uh kind of this geopolitical chess board because the way that I see the system going, like the way that I see Trump playing his hand is like there is a a chess match that's happening where if you want to call them white hats and black hats for simplicity sake, that's fine. You can call them that. But basically one side, the side that is the uh incumbent power, right? The deep state as we would call it, they have the ability to destroy everything. They have the the ability to bring down the financial market. They have the ability to um deploy proxies, launch all sorts of uh destabilizing events, military campaigns, etc. um basically bring the entire financial system to its knees, sell off all the US Treasury bonds that the that the various countries possess.
Um crash the markets, bring everything down. Um and in doing so, they might be able to preserve themselves. they might be able to survive, but they basically would sacrifice all the progress they've made in the past 30 to 40 years as it relates to the consolidation of power, AI, um the technocracy that they are looking to establish, um the internet, right?
Um, so that would be like a lastditch effort. Like if everything else fails and there's no hope for them, they probably have contingency plans in place of how they can just bring the whole thing down and just destroy everything.
I I don't think at all that that is like crazy to think that. I think that when you consider that we have m mutually assured destruction, which is we launch every single nuclear warhead at Russia, China, and every other nuclear power in the face of our own destruction. Um, that's a real contingency that has been reported on. Uh, I don't think it's crazy to think that they have similar contingencies for, you know, non-kinetic resolution.
So, if you are gaming out game theory against them, it's a chess match. It's like you have to keep them engaged enough so that they're not pressing that button and bring and take us all back to the stone age which would allow them maybe to survive and kind of reset but it also would bring all of us down with them. Right? So when I look at some of the moves that have happened, when I look at like the optics, when I look at the way Trump has presented himself, when I look at the heel turn that he has taken on, where it looks like he's become a neocon, where it looks like he's adopting the rhetoric of Lindsey Graham, where he's saying Lindsey Graham is my best friend, I love Lindsey Graham so much. I love Netanyahu. I love, you know, all these clowns who we all know are terrible people. Um, I view that as sacrificing chess pieces, right? you're sacrificing a little bit of your public credibility, which Trump can afford to do, and in exchange, you're keeping the other side playing the game as opposed to just flipping over the chessboard.
Tulsi Gabbard could also be another one of those moves. I don't know. But the fact that this Iran situation has happened, that Venezuela has gone the way it's gone, where you have Maduro being arrested and dragged back to the United States as opposed to just negotiating with Maduro. That seems to me like a chess move. Um the war with Iran seems like a chess move. The rhetoric that Trump has put out with Israel seems like a chess move because he's he's keeping them engaged, right?
He's keeping them thinking that they're going to continue to fight Iran even when we make peace with them. Um all these things seem like chess moves, right? The tariff thing seems like a test a chess move. It's like Trump did tariffs and now the tariffs have lost.
like we've we we've we've had the tariffs defeated at the at the at the um Supreme Court. Trump's now saying we're gonna have to pay back the tariffs, $150 billion. That's [ __ ] Um that means that we're not going to if there's no tariff, if there's no incentive structure for the corporations to pay tariffs, then there's no motivation for them to bring manufacturing back to the US. And all that investment that people are promising is worthless.
Because why would they invest in plants in the US and pay US workers living wages when they can go build those plants in China, India, etc. and pay those guys um you know pennies on the dollar, right? And and get their cheap goods and then they flood the cheap goods into our market. Rinse and repeat. Now, how you could circumvent that is by going to China and negotiating a deal with Xi where you're like, "Hey, Xi, don't allow this to happen." Right? Hey, Xi, you want us to work with you on Taiwan? Okay, you can have Taiwan. We want US corporations and their manufacturing out of China. And from Xi's perspective, as we've talked about on this network before, the the incentive to do that is actually there because it's not just about tax revenue for China. It's about the enslavement of their people. If their people view living in China as a detriment and that living there, you you can't get paid to work a living wage. You can't elevate um the standard of living for the average Chinese worker because they're being paid pennies on the dollar of what American workers are being paid. They're being exploited. That's not a system that is long-term sustainable. It might have been a system that brings you out of communism and brings you into the marketplace globally. But after doing that for a few decades, it's like that there's only so far there's a ceiling on that. So the incentive is actually there I think for for Xi to to work with Trump on this and get these people out of China because there's enough money I think in China and India and Russia where they can invest their own money and develop their own manufacturing just like we can develop our own manufacturing. But again, this is going to require cooperation from all these leaders to basically clamp down on these corporations which are transnational which use their money and influence to control governments including China. Um, and I think again like the chess board, the chess game is keeping these people, these psychopaths engaged enough where they're moving pieces around the chessboard and they view the chess game as, "All right, we can still win this thing. We can still beat Trump. We can still beat America first. We can still beat the MAGA movement. We just have to survive."
As opposed to, "Oh [ __ ] they're coming.
They're coming. We're being defeated.
hit the red button, blow everything up, reset everything. We still survive, but everything goes down with us.
I think dragging it out as long as you can so that the the public understands what the problem is and the public is has a appetite to deal with it is critical.
Will the public develop that understanding though? I think that's the question. That's where I think we're in limbo right now is is you know a lot of the frustration that I was expressing on um on Daily this morning on I've expressed on other shows previously is um not frustration with the narrative, not frustration with what Trump's doing.
I I I seem to think I at least I think I see what Trump's doing. I I can't possibly know if I'm being if I'm right.
The frustration is like what are we doing on our end, right? And the response to to that is what do you expect us to do? What could we possibly do? Um, right. Well, what you could do is you could educate yourself. You could you could do research. You could um you could use AI to help you compile lists of the of the corruption, right? I mean, look at what KCON and Ash and Ashen America do. Ash and Canon are the two best election integrity journalists in the country. And it's not because they work for a big, you know, journalist out. because they've taken it upon themsel themselves to go educate themselves on the subject to go actually like physically go to places where they need to go to attend you know court hearings to speak to people on the ground to interview people. They've um you know they've compiled data sets that reflects theories that they have and ideas of what has happened, what should happen, and what needs to happen in order to restore integrity to our election system. These are all things that they've done on their own. Like nobody gave them these orders. Nobody told them to go do it. They just went and did it.
Okay? And as a result, I think they are two of the most credible voices in the election integrity movement.
We all are capable of doing these things in every single little facet of the political zeitgeist whether it's geopolitics or election integrity or um you know corruption of the state department corruption of um the NOS's uh you know the the the financial system um the Federal Reserve you know Bitcoin like G money with Bitcoin all these different things have their own vertical that We can take it upon ourselves with all the resources available to us, AI, the internet, the infinite amounts of information that we have at our fingertips.
We're all capable of going out and becoming experts in one thing, right? We could go do that, but it's hard. It requires a lot of dedication. It requires a lot of work. It requires um determination and persistence. It's much easier to not do those things and to sit back and watch Fox News and let Fox News tell you who the good guys and the bad guys are. That's a much easier thing to do. Um, however, that's not going to lead you to salvation. It's not it's certainly not going to make you an enlightened, you know, enlightened uh operator, I think, in this current Zeitgeist. So, you know, as far as this chess, like the chess game goes, I that's the way I view it. I view that Trump is playing a chess game a chess match. Um I think it's very very naive to think that like the bad guys have all been thwarted and we're just cruising downhill and it's just going to be all sunshine and roses from here on out and you know all the threats that we're up against.
We're all we're all up that we're all up against are easy to uh you know have been addressed and are easy been resolved. If that were the case none of this would be necessary. the deception that Trump is engaged in it would none of that would be necessary. Trump wouldn't have to like lie to us about um you know and do scops and uh you know pretend that he was friends with Lindsey Graham. None of that would be necessary.
So why is it necessary? Well, that's the theory. That's what we're trying to understand. Why is it necessary? Because the people who don't like Trump who voted for him in 2024, they claim that Trump has betrayed us.
They claim he's compromised. They claim that maybe he was never one of us, that maybe he was an op the whole time. I don't believe that. Uh, and Adrien, yes, you're right. Culture wars. Culture war is another one. Adrien from Razire has become uh um an expert in the culture wars. understanding the fashion industry, understanding the symbolism, understanding, you know, how the fashion industry connects to all this other stuff, connects to politics, connects to banking, connects to um Hollywood, connects to the programming, the grooming of children, all of those things. Only once we understand the problem can we begin to develop strategies to undoing the problem and fixing it and resolving it. But we can't develop the strategies unless we understand the problem. And we certainly can't listen to politicians or other leaders pitch to us their solution and like actually qualify that solution if we ourselves don't understand the problem.
If we're sitting here listening to the Save Act and it's like, "Oh, well, if we just get everybody to use, you know, ID, like if if everyone has to use voter ID on election day, that fixes elections."
No, it doesn't. Because, as Ash and Canon will explain to you, there 50 other ways that they can steal elections, even with everybody using voter ID. Now, voter ID is going to fix a lot of problems. It's going to make stealing elections much, much much harder, but it doesn't it's not a it's not a a perfect solution. There are a lot of other things that need to be addressed. The use of the of the machines, the mailin voting, like all of those things need to be addressed. The voter ID is only one aspect of it. But until you understand all the different problems and all different ways they steal elections, you can't talk about how do we actually fix elections. The same thing with geopolitics, the same thing with the the financial system, the same thing with culture wars, the same thing with um academia, the same thing with um everything else.
So again, the chess match that Trump is playing, 5D chess, he's playing chess with all these people at the same time.
I think part of the challenge is keeping these enemies engaged enough where they aren't just flipping over the table, hitting the nuclear button and blowing it all up, which they probably have the ability to do to some extent. If not physically, then at least financially just bringing the whole financial system down, right? making all of your homes worthless, hyperinflating all of your money. Um, you know, doing things that make it impossible to live a life uh in the current system without having a new system in place that we're ready to immediately transition to, which by the way is not there yet. Bitcoin might be one of those solutions, but it's not nearly there in terms of adoption rate or uh practical use. like like I can't go up to 7-Eleven and buy something with Bitcoin. I can't go buy gas, put gas in my car with Bitcoin. I can't go um you know, pay my kids tuition for school with Bitcoin. Not yet. Maybe one day, but not yet.
Um all right, so let's check in on the chat because I think I've been ranting enough. I hope all that makes sense.
There's an there's an Ebola outbreak in the Congo. I'm almost positive we talked about that last Tuesday because I was writing about that two weeks ago. Um, and it looks like that Ebola outbreak is getting more intense. Uh, we will continue to track that. Maybe we'll talk about that on Friday, but right now there's probably not enough meat on that bone to really dig into it. Um, so let's see.
Lor Lori Lori Robin Lori Robino am I saying that right? We have been fighting city hall as a group Jim Flynn local action. Yes. I think local like like getting involved locally. I think that's that is the crux of it. That is uh the future of it. I mean I've been involved in local elections. I've gotten involved in getting local politicians elected at a very very micro scale like rural counties that are so rural, you know, elections are decided by 500 votes. Um where there are no it's very hard to steal an election when there's 500 people deciding an election like like when 5,000 people total are voting and the winner is winning by 500 votes. Like that's a very hard election to steal. So yeah, when you get involved at that level, absolutely. Um I know people personally who are on the election, who are on um who are involved in elections, who are sitting at the table when you go to get your ballot, right? Who are keeping eyes on all the other people making sure that they're not doing shady stuff with the ballots. Like that of course is important and how we should be involved. But again, even being in involved at the local level when it comes to elections, if it's like a state election like we just had in Virginia the other a few weeks ago, those ballots are then handed off, put on a truck, and taken somewhere where you don't have eyes on them anymore. So then what happens next?
Understanding what the next step is in the chain of custody. And then being able to go fact check what that chain of custody is. How did it actually happen?
Was there any [ __ ] involved? Because in in 2020, you know, Abigail Spamberger was able to stay in office because her campaign found a thumb drive at 3:00 in the morning in a drawer and said, "Oh yeah, all 15,000 of these votes on this thumb drive belong to Abigail." She wins. And nobody said anything.
That's how easy it is to steal an election. So when people ask, "What do you mean when we say the elections are fake?" I mean that if the CIA operative running in the election is losing and getting her ass kicked all day, all she has to do is pull a thumb drive out at 3 in the morning and say, "Hey, 15,000 votes for me, done." And she wins. And that was 6 years ago. And now she's governor of Virginia. That was back when she was just running for office in Congress. Now she's governor of Virginia. And you can bet your last dollar they're going to prepare her for running for the White House. Maybe not in 2028, but at some point. Um, so yeah, lo local uh local action. Uh, sleep state. Um, Tulsi Gabbard visited President-elect Trump in Trump Tower.
She also never endorsed Hillary Clinton.
If you read between the lines, she endorsed Trump. Yeah, I would agree with that. I think Tulsi, all the signal has been that she is uh I think she's a real patriot. I think she's important in this whole process. I hope we haven't seen the last of her. Who knows what happens in the next month. Eleanor $235. Thank you, Gordon. We have been suffering from feeling ghosted as of late. Yeah, I uh the past month has been pretty wild in terms of said a lot of travel, a lot of um commitments, a lot of uh you know, the kids wrapping up school. Uh so I think we're getting back to a normal we're settling into the summer schedule, although that's a whole its own can of worms with the kids no longer in school.
Um, all right. So, let's check. Hit the thumbs up, guys. Let's check in on the boosts. If you are listening to this on replay, you can go to badlands media.tv/boost and list and leave a boost. It's like a rant.
Uh, Bernie Marie from May 19th, $50.
Thank you so much, Bernie Marie. Uh, thanks for all your work, Ghost. Your maps and shows are really helpful. I'm not in USA, so they're a great way to learn history and to keep up with the happenings around the world. I never miss geopolitics, book of Trump, Breaking History, or The Choice. You're a Badlands gem. Well, thank you, Bernie Marie. I really appreciate your generosity. Um, and glad that you are enjoying the content and thanks for being here. Yeah, and hopefully we'll we'll get Breaking History up and running again soon. Um it's just we're on a hiatus because Matt's been traveling a bunch, I've been traveling a bunch, and we just knew that there was going to be like a month of um time where either one of us or neither of us would be around. So, it just made sense just just to go ahead and take a hiatus. Um let me see if there's anything else.
All right, I think we're caught up there.
Yeah, and the bunny, the bunny is talking about Nick in the chat. She's talking about Nick uh Fredus. Uh he was a very strong candidate. was like former soldier, you know, good-looking guy, uh, you know, uh, in shape, you know, he had all of the, uh, like he was almost like a manurion candidate almost, right? He was well spoken. He's like a social media influencer now. Um, which is super lame. Um, but yeah, he just rolled over.
He didn't even didn't even raise any questions. Didn't didn't say, "Hey, wait a minute. What about like that thumb drive?" I'm talking about the guy who was running against Abigail Spamberger.
um didn't raise any questions, didn't like sue, didn't you know demand answers, didn't demand a look at the thumb drive, didn't demand any of those things, just rolled over and took it.
And by the way, he was also at the White House last year when those influencers went and got the Epstein phase one binder. Nick Fredus was one of those people, which makes me like way more suspicious of what he is that like that like he's like a CIA asset or something.
Um [clears throat] yeah, I hope Tulsi uh returns as well. I hope Tulsi returns as well. Um Oak for sure. I I I think Tulsi's great and um again praying for her husband and hope all that is resolved um and he's he fully recovers. But man uh she's been a great asset I think to the whole movement and uh I think the movement really needs PE people like her. So, all right, guys. I'm going to go ahead and shut it down there. Hit the thumbs up. Share the show. We'll be back on Thursday with um the choice with Ash.
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