TRUMP'S SHOCKING FLIP: IRAN HAS RIGHT TO SELF DEFENSE

Good morning, everybody.Happy Thursday.Have an amazing show for everybody today.What do we have, Crystal?

Indeed we do.The MOU with Iran has been signed in Versailles, and Trump gave a wild press conference that we want to spend some time with.Said some very, very interesting things.That is part of why we are in day whatever, I don't know at this point, of the complete Zio meltdown, but they have decided to train their ire on one man.That man is not Donald Trump.It is Joe Biden.

J .D.Vance.So, that is an interesting political dynamic that we want to dig into.We're also really excited to be joined by the editor of Omwatch Media.They have had a number of really significant scoops over the course of the Iran war.

And so, we're going to dig into the details of this memo of understanding what it says, what it doesn't say, what it means in terms of the possibilities of war and peace going forward.So, very much looking forward to that.Trump's new Fed chair has been part of the decision to keep rates the same in a significant announcement yesterday.Of course, Trump has been agitating aggressively for rates to be cut, so we'll see what he had to say on the matter.And the membership list of Peter Thiel's Secret Society has been leaked, as well as an eyebrow -raising agenda for their next confab.So a lot of very influential, powerful names on both sides of the aisle that have been revealed as part of that exclusive club.

Certainly.And maybe they'll meet next in Argentina.where he currently resides.Thank you to everybody who's been subscribing to the show, breakingpoints .com to support us.Seriously, we deeply appreciate it.

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But let's go ahead and start, like you said, with the memorandum of understanding thenow been signed in Versailles.Here it is in all of its pomp and circumstance, Donald Trump there signing.The memorandum of understanding in the hall of Versailles.it is being signed electronically and being transmitted between both sides is because They want immediate resumption of the passage of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, which as of this morning, three Saudi tankers appear to be making their way through the Strait of Hormuz.So it does show us that, you know, some traffic is beginning to resume.

And on the other side, the Iranians know that the moment it's actually signed, considered official, that they get the release of some of their funds, which Trump, of course, addressed.But as you said, we had a wild Trump press conference, which preceded all of this.It's like somebody injected truth serum into him.And all of a sudden, you know, the gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.And there were a lot of gaffes, I think, throughout this entire one.First and foremost is Trump here on nuclear enrichment being like, yeah, maybe we will let him enrich a little bit.

Let's take a listen.

We've been pretty tough on that.You know, it's also it is a little hard, though, when you say that somebody wants it.Other people have it.Other adjoining states have it, and you're not letting them have it for purposes of electricity and things like that.It's always a little tough.You have to use a little common sense, please.

Yeah, I agree.

Got to use a little common sense.Agreed.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, under international law, it is their right to enrich for civilian purposes.But up to this moment, you know, if you said that, you werelike a, you know, a fringe lefty, usually radical.And now here you have the president like, well, you know, I mean, let's be reasonable about this.Why would we ban them from reaching a little bit for civilian purposes?

You were previously surrender monkey.If you said, Hey, um, you know, they said that we won't get a nuclear weapon.They even agreed not to enrich past a certain point for civilian purposes.So I used my common sense before the war, and I was like, what's the problem with that?And yet Trump consistently said that the Iranians would not commit to zero enrichment, as in zero enrichment of uranium whatsoever, or any nuclear material, including for civilian or for medical purposes, and used that as a pretext.Remember, he would consistently say Iran won't, remember the magic words, they won't say the magic words, zero nuclear weapons, which he would define as zero enrichment.

Anybody watching the show over 100 days ago, now is very familiar, and now Trump has come full circle back to this view.

kept having working on a parallel effort.with the Gulf nations to address non -nuclear issues such as the conventional ballistic missiles, which we'll be talking about and support.I mean, they have to have some because other people have some.You gotta have some.Somebody said you shouldn't give them one.And I have guys, I like some of these guys, but I don't think they're smart.

Sir, you shouldn't let them have any missile.

I said, well, what am I going to do?Am I going to let Saudi Arabia have missiles, but they can't have them?Yes, sir.It doesn't work that way, you know?It doesn't work that way.And missiles aren't the problem.

Missiles, they hurt a little location, but they don't blow up the planet.

Yeah.Absolutely.Smart.True.Yeah.Accurate.

What, you're going to let everybody else in the room?You're going to let Israel have whatever they want from our stockpiles, but you're not going to let Iran have any missile, as he said?

In other words, Iran has a right to defend itself, right?That's what it is.Does Iran have a right to exist, sir?Does Iran have a right to—Iran has a right to exist and a right to defend itself, right?Yeah, he's right.You know, I mean, part of this just belies the basic fact.

Yes, when you lose a war, there are two things that have to happen.Number one, you don't get everything that you want, and two, you have to pay them.a lot of reparations.This is Lindy.It's a tale as old as time.You don't conquer the place.

Thus, you've got to take some gold out of the treasury and haul it on over and sign a memorandum.And if that doesn't hold, then you go back to war.This is what happens, people.Sorry.I mean, the about face in 100 days, it's kind of what's so shocking about it.But at a basic level, yeah, it's true.

But that's why these by uttering these truths for the first time, look, from Trump, he can reverse.He can say something different today.say something different today, but there is power in the truth and there is power in what we have been trying to emphasize here.for quite some time.How is it that you can allow Israel, a rogue state, to have a secret nuclear weapons program, to have missiles, to bomb seven of its neighbors, to conquer and annex parts of Syria, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Gaza, and then in a straight face say, you're not allowed to have any even civilian nuclear enrichment, you're not allowed to have any ballistic missile threat, you cannot do that.or you can, you have to take over the entire country, right?

And so that's why, by saying, yes, they have a right to defend itself, and sure, oh, a civilian nuclear, we can't say that, and they're like, oh, but you're gonna pay them.It's like, yeah, we have to pay them.Otherwise, they're gonna continue to keep the Strait of Hormuz, and even paying, as Trump did.

Let me just react to what you just said, because I think you made an important point about the power of truth and the power of reality.overwhelmed the propaganda efforts, which were very minimal, by the way, for this war and pretty pathetic and poorly organized and changing day by day.But the ability of the American people to see through some of that propaganda has really overwhelmed this war effort.And American foreign policy is increasingly built on propaganda and lies, whether it's things like, oh, Israel's the most moral army on the planet and there are great allies and it's really great for our interests.Eventually, especially, I mean, in part because of social media, Because you have a much more diverse media ecosystem, you're not able to just keep people in the mainstream press, where these propaganda efforts come with very few holes in them, are very cohesive.Since you have that access, people are just not buying this fantasy world.

And the fantasy world is becoming more and more preposterous by the day.I told you a while ago, I was shocked by this.I was talking to my mom, who is not particularly political.She, most of her life has been an independent.Now she hates Trump.So she's definitely, you know, votes for Democrats by and large.

But she was talking about Iran and she was like, get it like we're allowed to have nuclear weapons and they aren't she's like that doesn't seem fair to me i was like wow mom okay i was pretty shocked that she said that but people are seeing through a lot of these lies and these propaganda that has been built up over years and years and years so look trump one danger with him always is that people hear on one day something that they want to hear from trump just as the, you know, the Zionists who wanted this war were hearing a lot of things from him that they wanted to hear over a lot of days.And now he's saying something different and doing something different, at least for the moment.And so, oh, my God, he betrayed us.He's shocked.I mean, this man will turn on a dime at any moment.There is no person he is loyal to.

There is no country he is loyal to outside of himself.So, you know, it's it's remarkable to hear him say these things that, of course, if Obama said it, if Biden said it, it would be and we would still be hearing about it on Fox News, et cetera.It is remarkable to hear him say those things.But of course, it doesn't mean that this is his fixed locked in position.Doesn't mean that we won't go back to war tomorrow.I mean, Israel is still bombing Beirut.

All of this is very tenuous and unstable.But the reason to talk about it is not because Trump is a reliable or good actor here.The reason to talk about it is because I think you're right.I think there is power and truth.And I think these are a lot of things that the American people have intuited, which is why they have been so opposed to this war from the beginning in a way that is truly unprecedented in, I think, in American history.

Let's let's just stick again, you know, and I know some of this is repetitive for longtime viewers.I'm sorry, but like, let's just think about, you know, let's go back to Biden logic.It's like we have to arm Ukraine because they're being invaded.Israel invades Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, and Lebanon, annexes their territory.in violation of international law, and we enable it, and we ship them weapons.Hold on, what is that?

Bukha is a genocide.Gaza, oh, that, no, that's, what is it?Self -defense action.Horrific civilian casualties.Except one is orders of magnitude bigger than the other.That doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense, does it?

a genocide in Gaza for years.And then we go out and try to do our moral preening in the world, oh, the Islamic terrorist regime, they're shooting protesters in the street.It's not that Americans are looking at this and going, oh, yeah, Iran, they're actually the good guys.They're just going like, well, who are we, really, at this point?to go out and lecture the world on moral values.And do we really believe that Donald Trump is so deeply concerned about the rights of protesters in the street in Tehran?

Of course, it's preposterous.And so the fantasy world has become so divorced from reality that people did not buy it.They have access to information they didn't used to have.And now you have an American president who is acknowledging things that, you know, and again, this can change in a moment, but who is acknowledging obvious logical things that many Americans intuited, and it is hard to put that understanding back in the bottle.

Iran's money, and how can we just keep it?That would undermine faith in the dollar.Let's go and put A3 and let's listen.

though, what the difference is between giving Iran U .S.dollars and unfreezing U .S.

dollars?Well, the unfreezing is an easy one to answer.We have taken a lot of their money, and we have their money.We have taking their money, it's not our money, it's their money, and we froze it.At a certain point in time, I guess we're going to have to give it back.You know, if we didn't give it back, nobody would ever invest in the dollar again.

If you took their money, because I thought about it, you know, I'm not the most perfect person, I said to Scott, Scott, why do we keep their money?What the hell are we giving it back to them?But you know, people from lots of nations, some nations we don't agree with, they have their money, the dollars become very strong under me, and they don't want to have a little conflict with somebody and end up having the United States just take their money.So if you do that, you really don't have a system.

You're right, sir.absolutely.You're absolutely right.And yet, again, you know, this is a neocon worldview is that the United States can be the world's reserve currency and bank that just declares when somebody who's spooky and bad doesn't get to have access to their money, like we did with Russia, you know, I'm coming back to Russia, we just said, Oh, no, actually, all of your money, it's ours.And As we said at the time, we're like, hey, we're gonna blow up the integrity of the entire international banking system and create a alternative cycle of crypto and of the Chinese yuan that will be used to circumvent the US bank, which actually makes us weaker.That's exactly what happened.

And then how did Iran actually facilitate some of those two million?And we know at least some people paid the toll.How did they pay?Either in yuan or they paid in crypto.Well, guess what?You laid the ground for that, again, with what happened after Ukraine.

So you are watching the reckoning.And we're actually going to talk about this later.People are now bullish back on the dollar after a result of this because they're like, oh, hey, actually, you know, oh, we can do this.to the world's reserve status it's bad for the united states especially in an emerging multipolar system where people who are quote enemies or bad or for a president can at any time just turn his back and say all of your money is ours to be able to keep it you know this reminds me of the whole palace of cash situation which i'll be honest at the time i fell for it because i didn't do enough research but Going back, Trita Parsi outlined all of this on Tucker Carlson's show, and laid it out extremely well.He's like, look, he had a certain amount of money, which was paid by the Shah, to the United States for arms.We didn't send the arms, we kept the money.

The Iranian regime took the U .S.to court at the Hague, and the Hague was going to rule against us, so we had to send back the money with interest, because that's the rule.And we sent back what was their money.

And they were sanctioned from using any of the traditional banking systems, so how else are you going to get them the money than sending them?pallets of cash.And that is the piece where it's, this one is the hardest for me to stomach from Trump because he has demagogues like so much against the JCPOA and the provisions in there and the pallets of cash.I mean, he did the whole thing all in on those talking about how weak Obama was, how terrible deal it was, and how we sent them these pallets of cash to fund their terrorist activities, blah, blah, blah.It is a little bit hard for me to stomach him now acknowledging the truth when it comes to him and his deal of, hey, this is this is actually their money.And at some point we probably should give it back.

Otherwise, this becomes in a way a problem for us, because if we are continually using and abusing our status as the world's reserve currency, our domination of the global financial system, that, of course, nations are going to figure out alternatives.And that is already happening in nascent form.And already our sanctions and the power of those sanctions, they're still powerful, don't get me wrong, but already they're beginning to be diminished and less of a threat than they used to be.Now, that's probably a good thing for the world.But if you're an American president and you're interested in preserving American empire, not such a great thing.

No, it's a disaster.And yeah, I mean, in 1998, that makes a lot to bend the knee, this is how things were going to work out.As you said, by the way, I think this is a good thing.This actually is a healthy dynamic.But this is why it is so intolerable for Israel.Because if we treat Iran like a normal country, that erases their regional hegemony over the entire world.

That erases the fact that we now have to balance these different interests.And, you know, I made this point with Dr. Parsi.Iran's GDP is only 100 billion less than the entire nation of Israel.Now, granted, Israel has a much higher GDP per capita, but there are plenty of small, high GDP per capita nations, which overall GDP don't make them particularly important to the rest of the world.You have Iran here, which, unsanctioned and reconstructed with that 300 billion, if they're able to sell oil into the global market to export any of this and then use it to invest, 25 years from now, between the Strait of Hormuz and the strength of their economy, This is going to be a geopolitical, maybe not powerhouse, but regional power like Robert Pape has consistently said.And he really deserves, you know, he's the first person who really gave me the vision of this framework.

He's right, you know, between the power of geography and then their ability to export this amount of oil, not to mention, you know, look, they have, as the neocons always said, there's a lot of intellectual capital.40 % every strategic petroleum reserve ran dry.Let's take a listen.

Also, we run out of reserves in about four weeks.You know, there are reserves all over the world and we would really run out.And there'll be a time when you wouldn't be able to get it.And you want to see Bedlam?

Bedlam.Bedlam.That's what we're headed towards.Again, you know, Chevron, CEO, all, you know, Rory, I want to, really, these people deserve credit.They were not incorrect.

Yeah.

All they did not foresee was China having one of the world's largest strategic petroleum reserves and massively cutting their energy imports, which I will just say, nobody literally could have foreseen that except for the CCP.If China had continued to import oil.The current estimate is oil would have been over $150 to $170 a barrel.Now, here, whenever it comes to the Strategic Reserve, they have access to these, because the data is all out there.We can all see, oh, lowest level since 1998.Next week, the lowest level since 1984.

We're like, well, there's not that much oil there.And then when they do, we know how much that we produce on a daily basis.We have no slack in the system.We know whatdirection that's going to go.Same here from Trump.

We would have run out of oil and it would have been bedlam.So the basic reality is that Iran's strategy was correct and that fundamentally the weapon of the Strait of Hormuz will remain for all time a part of the Iranian political system.playbook, and it should be from their perspective.We can either change that by occupying their nation and taking hundreds of thousands of casualties, or we can pay them and we can just live together.I choose the latter.I think most people do too.

You know, it's, it's very interesting to hear Trump say this, to say the least, because I mean, this is what the Iranian bet was, right?They bet that we could not take the economic pain, that they could, and that it would hurt us more and it would force us to come to the table and give them the terms that they had long been seeking.This is confirmation that they were correct, that that bet ultimately paid off.You know, all the propaganda of FDD and others who were saying, oh, if you just if we do a blockade of their blockade, they're going to completely collapse.Remember that?They were saying, oh, their oil wells are going to explode and they're going to completely collapse in days.

Obviously, that did not happen.And so here you have Trump acknowledging the reason for the timing of this deal is because we ran out of runway.We were weeks away from what he describes as bedlam because we were running too low on the strategic petroleum reserve.We weren't the only ones.The whole world's ability to absorb this extraordinarily, truly historic level of an energy shock, that was within days to weeks of coming to an end.And so that's why he was so intent on getting this deal now, because we were out of time.

There was another very interesting comment.didn't pull it, but I think it was a lot of things he said.of time.person on the entire planet, so the markets are wise and all -knowing.So that sent me the message of, hey, I better get to peace because that's what the stock market wants.I think that was genuinely an influential part of his thinking, was just this very simplistic, oh, peace, good.

war bad as judging by the response from the market.So I thought that was very revealing as well.You know, all that being said, I just want to again sound a note of caution.I'm just reading the headlines right now in Haaretz.You've got Israel holding negotiations with the U .S.

as it seeks to continuous deployment of troops in southern Lebanon.One person was killed in an Israeli drone strike in a town in southern Lebanon's Nabataea district, according to a local channel.still news coverage she doesn't like, and go back to banging the drums of war.None of this is stable.The other thing I will just say on the politics of it is, you know, when Biden withdrew from Afghanistan, there was thisthere's this, it's not exactly the same, but it is a bit of a similar moment of acknowledging the reality of this is a failed war.

We've been here for decades.We didn't accomplish anything.Now is the time to pull the plug.What, we're going to stay there forever?Basically, the reason for the Afghan withdrawal was there is not going to be a good time to do this.So we're just going to do this and acknowledge the reality that is in front of everybody's eyes.

People leading up to the withdrawal supported it overwhelmingly.If you polled the American people, we looked at these polls, they would say, yes, we should get out of Afghanistan.Then it happened and it became the single most devastating blow to Biden's presidency.The reason being because there was such a united front across across all media apparatus.There were very big, again, credit to Ro Khan.He was one of the only ones who was willing to go out and defend Biden and his withdrawal from Afghanistan.

There was such a blanket condemnation.Then, of course, like the horror of American service members being killed, the mess of all that, sure, surely did not help anything, although I don't know that there ever would have been a way that this could have gone completely smoothly.It really was like the death knell of his presidency.And so even though Trump here, you know, if this goes through, if we get to peace, et cetera, I mean, the fact that he brought us into war to begin with, was an utter and complete disaster.And the acknowledgement of the reality of our losing this war, which is what happened.We lost the war.

And what that means, what we're going to have to give in exchange for acknowledging that reality could be a death knell for Trump's presidency the way that the Afghan withdrawal was from Biden.

Yeah, because it's like ending a war which you shouldn't have been in.That's why even navigating this is so difficult, right?You want to be like, wow, Mr. President, thank you for your strategic wisdom.It's like, well, you got us into this damn mess.

Yeah.You're the reason that the was closed in the first place.

And gas is what it is.Actually, thank God, gas just hit $3 .99 a gallon nationally.Good.I'm happy.It was $2 .50.the when Trump starts praising the Iranians in a vaguely homosexual manner.

And his nascent dude crushes were very on display, not necessarily to the Iranians here, but to a lot of the Arab allies who helped cement this peace deal.Let's take a listen, A6.

Mr. President, I have a question.What a nice -looking person.

Is he from your country?Is he from your country?Absolutely.He's got such a nice way about him.My people, they're so mean.Be careful.

No, I can put him in a movie right now.Go ahead.He's a very tough negotiator.One of the toughest, actually.So you look at this man. I'll give you a lesson.He's the most beautiful looking man.

He looks so nice, he's like an angel.But actually, he's as tough as, he's a killer.I don't wanna, he's a killer.He's as tough as they come, but he looks so good.So he gets you by surprise.So, he was in a hotel, and I met him, and we fell in love, deeply in love.

And he didn't even wanna see Hillary.

The last person he's talking about there is President Sisi of Egypt, who's like one of the most brutal dictators.

He's like, I stayed longer, twice as long as I was supposed to.We fell in love.So my theory of what happened here that really clinched the deal in the end and, you know, led to Trump's capitulation on some key concessions is he sawin the So that might be what's going on here.

Certainly something.All right, let's get to the Vance situation.