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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Germany Tension | Allen Jackson Now | April 30, 2026
- Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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- I'm alan jackson.
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- The war with iran continues, and so too
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- Does the political fight with the democrats in congress.
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- The elected members who take aim at everything president
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- Trump does to keep the country safe and prosperous,
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- While iran chants death to america!
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- Well, the democrats are trying to
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- Rationalize the latest assassination
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- Attempt on the president as something that he brought on,
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- Or worse, that he created the shooting at the hilton
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- To help push the construction of the new white house ballroom.
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- Pete hegseth appeared before congress at a pentagon budget
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- Hearing this week,
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- And he let them know precisely who he thinks the real enemy is.
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- The biggest challenge, the biggest adversary we face at
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- This point are the reckless, feckless and defeatist
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- Words of congressional democrats and some republicans.
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- That used to be the case that during times of war,
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- The american people,
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- Including the opposition party, would support the president.
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- But not these days, and not even as iran was quickly
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- Heading to the point where they would have
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- Had the ultimate nuclear gun to our heads.
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- Iran's leaders have a very weak hand right now.
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- Their oil drilling will end soon because they have no more room
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- For storage.
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- Their money is frozen in the global banking system.
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- Food is getting scarce and even gas is expensive.
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- Despite all the oil they have.
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- But the leadership doesn't care about the people of iran
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- Or the effect this is having on their way of life.
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- Iran's leadership only knows one thing.
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- Resist to the end.
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- Well, sadly, resisting is the same tool
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- That congressional democrats are using.
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- Even as the world sees america's political dysfunction
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- On display.
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- It's clearly a political move because when president biden
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- Came to the defense of ukraine, there was no such resistance.
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- That war has gone on for more than four years
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- With no end in sight, despite hundreds of billions of u.s.
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- Dollars in weapons.
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- Yet the democrats continue to attack president trump
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- After just two months in iran,
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- Despite the fact that he's already neutered
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- The most evil regime on the planet.
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- You know, i admire the willingness of trump
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- And his administration to do difficult things
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- Because some politicians just want the vote.
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- They will pander to remain popular principle.
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- It doesn't guide their actions.
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- Well, from my point of view, trump
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- And members of his cabinet are not traditional politicians.
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- They're not using their authority
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- For personal gain or personal comfort and convenience.
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- They're using the authority
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- That has been given to them to serve the people.
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- There's no question
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- That the radical regime in iran
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- Has been a global sponsor of terror,
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- And has been at war
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- With the united states for at least 47 years.
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- They have been a threat for a long time.
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- Keep that in mind when the media and certain politicians
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- And tiktok commentators frame what's happening in iran.
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- We've been praying for weeks now that the name of jesus
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- Will be exalted in the streets of tehran,
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- And that they'll be free in havana soon
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- To preach the gospel in the streets,
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- And that in nigeria,
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- Evildoers will be stopped from hunting christians.
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- All of that is appropriate.
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- But i think as christians here in america,
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- We have some hard questions that we have to ask ourselves.
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- How are we using
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- Our spiritual authority in our own communities?
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- You know, the freedoms we were praying for in tehran
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- And cuba and venezuela and nigeria,
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- We already enjoy those freedoms here.
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- What are we doing with those freedoms?
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- Too often we spend our authority
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- On personal comfort and convenience,
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- Praying that our kids will make it
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- Into the little league team,
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- Or that we could drive a better car.
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- You know, unfortunately, there's been an abandonment of
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- What was once considered to be the right thing to do.
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- Instead, we've embraced what's good for me,
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- And it's become an acceptable choice.
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- But that's not acceptable in the context of the kingdom of god.
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- You know, here in tennessee
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- Now we're in the midst of local primary elections.
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- And one of the comments i keep hearing
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- Is that if we do the right thing, we risk a lawsuit.
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- Well, since when did doing the
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- Right thing have to be determined by the consequence?
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- You do the right thing, period.
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- You don't do the wrong thing
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- Because you're afraid of the consequence.
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- Let me ask you this.
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- If you knew that
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- There was going to be a negative consequence
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- For remaining faithful to your wife,
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- Would you cheat on your wife
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- So that you could avoid the consequence?
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- Well, recently here in nashville, a first grade teacher
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- Was assigned to read a book called stella brings the family.
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- It was a book about same sex marriage
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- On the cover of the book,
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- And showed two fathers and one daughter.
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- Well, eric rivera, the first grade teacher,
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- Declined to read the book,
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- And he asked school administrators
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- For a religious accommodation
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- Because the book conflicted with his christian beliefs.
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- The next day, he was summoned to the
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- Principal's office and threatened with termination.
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- He subsequently was reassigned to a lab and technology position
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- After facing a warning letter from a christian legal group
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- Representing the teacher,
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- The school's now backtracked and cleared
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- The incident from rivera's record.
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- Good for him.
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- It would have been so easy for rivera to take the easy route.
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- Go ahead and just read the book and avoid the hassle.
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- But this christian teacher chose to do the right thing.
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- He chose to do difficult.
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- Well, as christians here in america,
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- We must ask ourselves why is there a
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- Negative consequence for doing the right thing?
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- And who's inflicting that negative consequence?
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- And why are we tolerating that?
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- If you're being punished for doing the right thing,
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- There's something wrong with the system.
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- And we have to change the system.
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- As christ followers, we can't stay quiet.
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- You know, years ago, i was giving advice
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- That has helped me many times.
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- The first thing i was told is when you must make a choice
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- To do nothing is to make a choice.
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- The second is that silence in the face of evil is affirmation.
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- So if you fail to respond to the evil you're confronted with,
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- You'll be increasingly overcome by that evil.
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- The spiritual turmoil that we are facing.
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- It's real
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- That to pretend that we don't see it
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- Is to make that first choice.
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- If we don't confront it, our silence affirms it.
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- If we don't respond to it with a biblical worldview,
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- It will increase.
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- We must speak against evil when we see it.
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- I applaud the leadership being displayed by president
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- Trump on the world stage.
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- President trump has settled eight wars since he took office,
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- And he wants to do the same in ukraine and the middle east.
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- Well, in a moment, we'll talk it all through
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- With the former naval intelligence commander,
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- Paul shabo.
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- I'll be right back.
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- I'll be right back.
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- Even with the war continuing,
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- We got word today that the country's gdp
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- Is running at 2%
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- And the tax refunds are still showing up at home.
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- It's a good sign for the months ahead.
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- Yeah, we've all been told that
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- Stopping a war is a lot harder than starting one.
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- Well, that's certainly
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- The case with iran and russia, which we'll discuss tonight.
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- Joining me is the formal naval intelligence commander,
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- Paul shabo. welcome back, sir.
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- Sir. my pleasure.
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- Thanks for having me.
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- President trump said he got a call
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- From vladimir putin this week
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- Asking if he wanted to help with iran's enriched uranium.
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- No, thanks, was the answer.
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- The president told putin he'd
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- Rather have him in the war in ukraine instead.
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- Do you think putin was trying
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- To get his hands on their enriched uranium?
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- So he could save it for them
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- And give it back years down the road?
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- Yeah.
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- Burton knows that we're not going to respond
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- Favorably to that kind of a negotiation tactic.
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- Russia's in a world of their own pain right now,
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- Where ukraine is largely independent on their drone
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- Creation, targeting russia.
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- And russia's no longer getting drones
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- That are coming from iran.
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- So russia's in a bad position.
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- And right now the united states is leading the way,
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- And the iran military leadership is in significant disarray.
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- There was another interesting exchange this week.
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- The german chancellor said
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- That he thought
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- Iran was in a quote, humiliating the united states
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- By negotiating hard and dragging out the war.
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- President trump shot back and told him that he's
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- Considering cutting the number of american troops in germany.
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- How do you see this playing out?
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- You know,
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- To hear a fellow ally in germany,
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- Especially one that knows what occupation looks like,
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- Is very disheartening because that is bulletin board
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- Material for our adversaries, and we all have the same enemy.
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- Nobody wants to see a nuclear iran.
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- And if anyone, germany
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- Should be more concerned than the united states.
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- Iran has already shown the capability
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- To launch ballistic missiles
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- Reaching our bases in diego garcia,
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- Which means their trajectory right now
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- Could reach most of europe with nuclear capability
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- In the near future.
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- If we fail as a world to disarm,
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- You're rich to uranium from iran.
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- Well, president trump wants to end the war with iran
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- As soon as possible.
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- And he's got one eye on the midterms as well.
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- But he also doesn't want to be clearing mines
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- In the strait of hormuz
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- And playing gatekeeper for who goes in and out of it.
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- How do you see that being resolved?
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- The strait of hormuz is the biggest linchpin
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- In this entire conflict, secondary
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- Only to making sure that iran does not have enriched uranium,
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- Which, by the way,
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- They are already at 60% weeks away from that
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- To 90% to potentially have the capability
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- For true nuclear, nuclear weapons.
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- The strait of hormuz is internet
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- Is international waters about 21 miles.
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- And so the concern here is
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- That iran is going to try to force a negotiation,
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- Which they have already, and we're going to deny it
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- In allowing them to have any control over a strait.
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- That would be horrible for the free world.
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- And it's nothing that we should accept.
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- And i know trump today has announced a particular mechanism
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- Going forward to our allies for consideration for opening
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- Up the strait.
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- Well, iran's leadership is clearly broken down,
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- But those who remain in place still have that instinct
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- To resist acting like they still hold some cards.
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- Some military experts are saying that the us
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- Should finish them off and take kharg island.
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- What do you think?
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- So i rarely has four sort of main leaders right now
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- There, ayatollah.
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- Remember, we killed the father about 8 or 9 weeks ago.
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- His son took over. we hadn't heard from his son.
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- Same last name.
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- Khamenei recently spoke today.
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- Basically very defiant.
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- They have a president who is largely in charge
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- Of administrative day to day options.
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- Their foreign minister has traveled to oman
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- And to russia recently.
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- I see him more as the peace negotiator.
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- But remember, you also have the the revolutionary guard,
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- Which is very hard to the right, very allied with soleimani,
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- Which is not going to give up.
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- And so we're going to see some internal turmoil.
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- Kharg island is fascinating because 90% of iran's oil
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- Is stored there. they're at capacity.
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- We have two marine expeditionary units, in-theater,
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- Which could take that island as well as others for control.
- 00:11:11.100 --> 00:11:14.637
- But we got to watch because the next five,
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- Six, seven, eight days,
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- The economic turmoil in iran is going to continue to build up
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- As well as our oil capacity for holding oil
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- Is going to evaporate, which means that our wells
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- Are going to go into long term shutdown
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- And significant economic turmoil for iran going forward.
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- Paul, what about nato?
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- Do you think they'll provide any meaningful help
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- With the straits of hormuz, strait of hormuz?
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- I mean, i think nato really has to with the strait of hormuz.
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- When we think about this, certainly
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- The united states is energy independent,
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- But 20% of the world's oil flows through the strait,
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- As well as commercial products and in particular, fertilizer.
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- A lot of europe depends, obviously
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- Not just on oil and natural gas, but also fertilizer, as we do
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- As well.
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- As this goes forward, the world needs to unite
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- To ensure
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- That iran does not push forward with their number one agenda,
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- Which is to control the strait of hormuz
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- With technology, minesweepers, our drone capability
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- In the water for disarming.
- 00:12:15.331 --> 00:12:16.966
- And we do see some allies talking about sending some ships
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- That can do mind clearing.
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- I think we're in the beginning stages
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- To see cooperation going forward.
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- Nato has got to come to the level here and help.
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- It is in their duty
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- Because what the united states is leading
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- The way on is a safer world for all, not just america.
- 00:12:30.646 --> 00:12:34.884
- Well, before we go to break,
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- Do you think iran has enough weapons left
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- That they could shoot off one last
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- Round and regain control of something they've lost?
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- They've got about a third of their missiles left.
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- They have a thousands of drones left,
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- And they probably have about 6000 mines, mines
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- That float, mines that are underwater.
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- And so they do still have significant capability.
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- What they no longer have is an air force or a navy,
- 00:12:59.275 --> 00:13:02.445
- But they do have very small, fast attack boats,
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- Which we've seen in recent days and weeks
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- That can overcome oil tankers and others in the strait.
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- That is the concern.
- 00:13:10.019 --> 00:13:11.354
- But also they still do have ballistic missile capability,
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- As we have seen them shoot off two ballistic missiles
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- To our bases in diego garcia weeks ago.
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- That is a concern.
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- Well, paul, we need to take a short break.
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- Would you stand by for another segment?
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- My pleasure.
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- And if those of you watching
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- Want to jump in on this conversation,
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- Just go to aj now.com and send me an email.
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- I'd love to hear from you.
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- I'll be right back.
- 00:13:35.244 --> 00:13:41.012
- I'll be right back.
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- We're back now with the former
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- Naval intelligence commander, paul shabo.
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- Let's move to ukraine.
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- There's a report that ukraine had shot down
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- Hundreds of russia's drones this week,
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- But there's nothing new on
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- Whether a truce is possible anytime soon.
- 00:13:58.072 --> 00:14:01.075
- There's the fact that so much of our attention
- 00:14:01.075 --> 00:14:02.610
- Is moved to iran, that it's making things more difficult
- 00:14:02.610 --> 00:14:05.646
- For zelenskyy to put it into the war.
- 00:14:05.646 --> 00:14:08.716
- So right now,
- 00:14:09.083 --> 00:14:10.818
- Obviously, a lot of america's
- 00:14:10.818 --> 00:14:11.852
- Attention is paid to the middle east,
- 00:14:11.852 --> 00:14:13.688
- But there's really two wars going on as we know.
- 00:14:13.688 --> 00:14:16.490
- And ukraine, i think, has made incredible headway.
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- No one would have thought years ago,
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- I remember when this war
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- Or first started
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- That russia would have any trouble over coming ukraine.
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- And they are in fact.
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- German chancellor should have really framed
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- Putin as being humiliated.
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- I think that is the story that what ukraine has done
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- With their drone technology, the capabilities on
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- The battlefield, is really revolutionary.
- 00:14:40.014 --> 00:14:42.383
- And interestingly, america can learn a lot from that.
- 00:14:42.383 --> 00:14:45.653
- But critical is that russia may not be able to match
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- Ukraine drone for drone going forward,
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- Because russia got a lot of their drones
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- And their technology coming out of iran
- 00:14:53.327 --> 00:14:55.296
- Before we attacked iran.
- 00:14:55.296 --> 00:14:57.164
- So by us going after iran, we are by default in many ways
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- For their help
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- In helping ukraine advance or at least fend off russia.
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- Look, russia, for their negotiations, if you will.
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- They are looking at potentially negotiating.
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- At least that's what they told trump,
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- In the last 24 hours on a 90 minute phone call.
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- But russia wants certain territory
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- In the eastern bloc of ukraine.
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- And that's a no go for ukraine.
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- So the negotiations
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- Are going to be at a standstill, at least on those terms.
- 00:15:22.957 --> 00:15:26.127
- Well, a lot of people thought zelenskyy
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- Would have to give up, given the much smaller
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- Number of soldiers he has versus russia,
- 00:15:29.764 --> 00:15:32.366
- But somehow he's still managed to put keep putin at bay.
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- Is that better fighting, better equipment or just
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- Something else?
- 00:15:38.572 --> 00:15:39.407
- You know, it's really honestly better technology
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- When you think about the resiliency
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- Of the human spirit when you're put in a war,
- 00:15:44.478 --> 00:15:47.214
- Like this, where they were looked upon as the underdog.
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- They took this revolutionary,
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- Technology of drones and advanced it on the battlefield.
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- It is remarkable to look at their operators.
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- Certainly they have troops
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- On the front lines that are defending,
- 00:16:00.895 --> 00:16:02.830
- But a lot of what they have
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- Going forward, attacking in russia
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- Are drones that have significant reach and capability.
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- If you can imagine this,
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- A lot of their operators basically sit
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- Well inside of ukrainian territory
- 00:16:13.507 --> 00:16:15.976
- And are monitoring one way drones, if you will,
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- With cameras targeting all of russian's capabilities.
- 00:16:18.913 --> 00:16:22.783
- Russia has changed their tactics
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- To provide some sort of fencing over their armory.
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- But even that we've been able to get around and even ukraine
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- Now is advancing forward.
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- Robots, if you will,
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- That look like miniature tanks with machine
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- Guns that have been known in the field to hold down,
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- Russian forces for 24 hours?
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- I think it's remarkable what they're doing a lot
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- For the free world to learn from that technology aspect.
- 00:16:43.571 --> 00:16:46.373
- And right now russia is not looking too good.
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- With president trump
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- Openly criticizing nato for its lack of response in iran.
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- Do you think that putin might
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- Try to take advantage of that moving forward to poland
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- Or deeper, even inside of ukraine?
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- I don't think russia right now has the capability to go
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- Much beyond the conflict where they are.
- 00:17:05.459 --> 00:17:07.394
- Remember, they are pulling in,
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- Forces from north korea to help them fight.
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- They are using conscripts.
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- They are recruiting deeper and deeper
- 00:17:13.467 --> 00:17:15.436
- Into the bench of the russian people
- 00:17:15.436 --> 00:17:17.638
- And the russians going forward to the front lines.
- 00:17:17.638 --> 00:17:20.141
- They call it a meat grinder
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- Because they are literally getting torn down,
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- By ukraine forces and drones and their advanced technology,
- 00:17:23.844 --> 00:17:26.847
- Which russia is having a very difficult time adapting to.
- 00:17:26.847 --> 00:17:30.784
- The concern, though, is that, look,
- 00:17:30.784 --> 00:17:32.153
- Russia is still an adversary
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- Of the united states and a clear, ally of iran.
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- And even today,
- 00:17:37.625 --> 00:17:39.760
- Russia is sharing satellite technology with iran.
- 00:17:39.760 --> 00:17:43.430
- And why that is dangerous is for iran to use the ballistic
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- Missiles, the weaponry that they have left.
- 00:17:47.635 --> 00:17:50.004
- They're going to depend
- 00:17:50.004 --> 00:17:51.138
- Largely on that russian shared intelligence and imagery
- 00:17:51.138 --> 00:17:54.441
- About where u.s.
- 00:17:54.441 --> 00:17:55.409
- Forces are, where our ships are.
- 00:17:55.409 --> 00:17:57.545
- So, yes, russia will fight the united states not directly,
- 00:17:57.545 --> 00:18:01.482
- But by providing intelligence and support to iran
- 00:18:01.482 --> 00:18:04.685
- In that method to target u.s. forces.
- 00:18:04.685 --> 00:18:07.054
- So russia is still very dangerous.
- 00:18:07.054 --> 00:18:08.722
- A lot of capabilities, that they will quite
- 00:18:08.722 --> 00:18:12.693
- Honestly, play out now and play out in the future.
- 00:18:12.693 --> 00:18:15.896
- Well, the question about some things a little closer to home
- 00:18:17.064 --> 00:18:19.733
- If trump tries to move on cuba, this has been suggested.
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- Do you think russia will still
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- Have the means to jump in and help defend cuba?
- 00:18:24.405 --> 00:18:28.108
- You know that,
- 00:18:28.442 --> 00:18:30.177
- I would say as of today, no, they don't.
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- Russia is stretched very thin.
- 00:18:33.113 --> 00:18:35.416
- What we do know
- 00:18:35.416 --> 00:18:36.584
- Is that they sent an oil tanker to cuba a few weeks ago.
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- The united states initially
- 00:18:39.620 --> 00:18:40.721
- Was not going to allow that in, but we did.
- 00:18:40.721 --> 00:18:43.057
- But that one oil tanker has not done much to sustain cuba.
- 00:18:43.057 --> 00:18:46.760
- Cuba is a communist nation.
- 00:18:46.760 --> 00:18:49.330
- It is still designated as a terror sponsor state.
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- Trump put it back on the list in 2021.
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- We are pressuring that regime.
- 00:18:55.603 --> 00:18:57.705
- There could potentially be collapse from within cuba.
- 00:18:57.705 --> 00:19:01.075
- They have rolling blackouts right now.
- 00:19:01.075 --> 00:19:03.143
- They have food shortages and they're losing their population.
- 00:19:03.143 --> 00:19:07.615
- So we may not actually have to look much towards
- 00:19:07.615 --> 00:19:10.517
- Russia to helping, cuba.
- 00:19:10.517 --> 00:19:12.953
- We may see cuba themselves
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- Begin to overtake their own leadership as a failed state.
- 00:19:14.989 --> 00:19:18.592
- One last quick question.
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- It seems to me that a truly free cuba aligned with the u.s.
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- Would be much better strategically for us.
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- My understanding that correctly.
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- Oh, 100%.
- 00:19:29.136 --> 00:19:30.304
- Look, the cubans, that have fled and ended up in florida,
- 00:19:30.304 --> 00:19:34.308
- Largely florida, other parts of this country.
- 00:19:34.308 --> 00:19:37.077
- They love our nation.
- 00:19:37.077 --> 00:19:38.212
- They love what we stand for.
- 00:19:38.212 --> 00:19:39.413
- And they came here
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- And there's some of the best americans
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- And some of the best voters, because they've come
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- From a communist nation.
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- And they come here warning us
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- What it is that we're up against.
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- Cuba being 90 miles to history with the cuban missile crisis,
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- Turning over cuba, into a free nation
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- With a people here already domestically in this country
- 00:19:56.363 --> 00:19:59.533
- Would just be a huge win, not only for the cuban people
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- In cuba, but also for those here as well.
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- I hope that is the future of cuba.
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- A beautiful country
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- That has provided
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- Remarkable citizens
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- To our nation, that have been
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- On the front lines politically and in the military,
- 00:20:12.546 --> 00:20:15.616
- Just stalwart americans that we love.
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- Absolutely.
- 00:20:19.153 --> 00:20:20.054
- I think there's almost over 3 million
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- Cubans have already immigrated.
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- We put that on our prayer list.
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- Possible.
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- Thank you for your time today.
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- We all look forward to a peaceful
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- Into all these conflicts,
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- As well as looking forward to the freedom of the citizens,
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- All these countries involved. i hope you stay in touch.
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- Thanks.
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- God bless you all and have a great day.
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- In a moment, your emails.
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- In a moment, your emails.
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- Thank you for taking the time to send us your emails.
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- Your thoughts and opinions are important.
- 00:20:53.890 --> 00:20:56.159
- John g emailed i keep trying to get my current
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- And past pastors to shepherd their flock
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- By encouraging them to vote,
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- And to vote for candidates with a biblical worldview,
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- But to no avail.
- 00:21:06.370 --> 00:21:08.038
- They see they seem too frightened to get involved.
- 00:21:08.038 --> 00:21:11.174
- After all, someone might get offended.
- 00:21:11.174 --> 00:21:13.944
- Well, frankly,
- 00:21:13.944 --> 00:21:15.045
- I think they'd be more concerned about offending god.
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- Well, i agree with you, john.
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- You know,
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- There are we're fortunate there are many good churches.
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- I'd keep looking till i found one
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- That would engage what's happening in our world.
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- To simply talk about first century social
- 00:21:26.523 --> 00:21:29.259
- Things causes us to become a theoretical faith society.
- 00:21:29.259 --> 00:21:33.397
- That's not a church.
- 00:21:33.397 --> 00:21:34.765
- Our faith has to extend into the present world
- 00:21:34.765 --> 00:21:37.234
- To make an impact, to be salt and light. today.
- 00:21:37.234 --> 00:21:40.370
- And a viewer on youtube episode with john malcolm
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- Commented, education does not equal common sense.
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- Amen.
- 00:21:48.912 --> 00:21:50.180
- We have a lot of people in universities
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- Without in any common sense.
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- But god is moving in the earth.
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- Perhaps we will see that change.
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- Thank you for spending a few moments of your day with us.
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- God bless you.
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- And good evening.
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