Iran is not the final boss in the Middle East, Russia is. This has been a proxy war between Russia and the US since the end of WWII. And even though we know that the war is over, no one else seems to. So in order for Russia and the US to extricate themselves from the Middle East, there has to be an end to Iran. --Halsey English
Halsey English.
Peter Quinones.
Tom Luongo.
Dexter K. White.
17:26, White. I think this is all about honestly the end game of regime change. I think October 7th changed thinking in Israel in a way that outsiders don't want to appreciate. There's a strong case to be made that Iran planned October 7 in some capacity, and I think that this is all nothing more than that. I don't think that the nuclear breakout is what's really going on, and I don't think it's Bibi being afraid of being prosecuted or anything. I think literally it's gangster shit.
18:20, White. I think a lot of people, too, they know American Jews, but they don't know any Israelis, and they're not the same. Neuroticism is a lot lower in real Israelis. And I'm not saying about the guy you know from New Jersey when he was 60. Like not that guy; like the real Israelis. They don't fuck around.
48:10, White. Netanyahu's brother was killed in a raid on Entebbe, 1976.
49:05, Halsey. Iran was enriching uranium to 60%, which is beyond any civilian use but not capable of creating any fissile material for a bomb. That's 90%. But going from 60% to 90% takes about a week, a real technical difficulty. The real difficulty is getting to 60%. Once you're at 60%, getting above that is actually quite easy.
54:30, Halsey. I had to actually humble myself and apologize to Tom about because when he first told me his whole concept, I literally laughed at him. And as it turns out, he was dead right on this. Iran is not the final boss in the Middle East, Russia is. This has been a proxy war between Russia and the US since the end of WWII. And even though we know that the war is over, no one else seems to. So in order for Russia and the US to extricate themselves from the Middle East, there has to be an end to Iran, and it has to be done in a way that Russia doesn't want to go to war over. And that's the final boss.
55:08, White. I was saying "in the Middle East," because I was going to preface that the ultimate fight that needs to happen, and I hope it's not a kinetic fight, is between Russia, China, US, and the EU because all of this is kind of saying that the last boss of the Middle East that has autonomy, even though they're heavily influenced, is Iran.
55:30, Quinones. Does Saudi not have autonomy?
55:33, English. Saudi doesn't have balls. They don't do anything. They've never been an enemy. Yes, they have some shitty elements in their country that they don't have control over completely, but they're about money. That's the only thing that Saudi Arabia cares about, that's why they're