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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: February 12, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight | February 12, 2026

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck.
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And the clock is ticking on iran's regime on wednesday.
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President trump hosted
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Israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu at the white house
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For a long, closed door meeting focused on iran
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And regional security.
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It was their seventh meeting
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Since trump returned to office last year.
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Folks, i really see trump and bibi as a pair of modern day
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Churchills in a sea of chamberlains.
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Their partnership is historic,
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And the next few weeks will determine
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How president trump in particular is remembered.
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Will he make the call
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To strike iran and put an end to the ayatollah regime,
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The world's number one state sponsor of terrorism and a force
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For misery and mayhem for nearly a half a century?
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He promised the iranian people a month ago
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That help was on the way,
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As the regime was slaughtering thousands in the streets.
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Since then, we've seen a massive u.s.
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Military buildup in the region at iran's doorstep.
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This does not seem like a coincidence.
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Yet the president said after his meeting
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With netanyahu yesterday that negotiations
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With iran over its nuclear program will continue.
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At the same time, he said he's considering sending
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A second aircraft carrier strike group to the middle east
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To ramp up pressure on iran if negotiations fall apart.
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The pentagon is now preparing
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That second strike group, likely the uss george h.w.
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Bush, for potential deployment, and if ordered,
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It could move within hours.
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It would join the uss abraham lincoln,
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Which is already in the region,
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Marking the first time since march 2025 that two u.s.
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Carrier strike groups would be positioned there simultaneously.
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The message is unmistakable.
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Diplomacy, backed by overwhelming force, peace
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Through strength
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And a healthy dose
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Of psychological warfare and intentional mixed messaging
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To keep iran's regime off balance.
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Back in june, i called it the swerve publicly.
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President trump said he preferred diplomacy with iran,
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And it seemed that he and bibi were at odds.
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But privately, the two were very much on the same page.
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While iran's regime became complacent and overconfident.
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Completely falling for the swerve.
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The united states and israel
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Were preparing a massive assault.
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On june 13th, israel launched the 12 day war against iran,
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And the u.s.
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Closed it out with operation midnight hammer,
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Which saw the destruction of iran's nuclear weapons sites.
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Are we seeing another swerve right now by trump and bibi?
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We will soon find out.
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In the meantime, as washington
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And jerusalem coordinate strategy,
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Something else is happening inside iran itself.
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Exiled iranian crown prince reza pahlavi is calling
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On the iranian people to continue rising up,
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Urging unity ahead of planned demonstrations
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And what he calls the lion and son revolution.
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Watch in barney's astronomical hampshire
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Bohemian rhapsody show you stay disciplined, camille.
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You know, i try and jump better heat.
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How was it when you saw zan boucher yesterday?
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It's about a 42 and drove the car, making it a bit.
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On it came mishima the hamilton.
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Don't that bubba santoso jahan.
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But he got and acosta had should.
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Could he be
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Iran's next leader and could internal
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Unrest, combined with external pressure
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From the united states and israel
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To bring down the iranian regime once and for all, and
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Fundamentally reshape
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The world's most volatile and strategic region?
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We break it down next. you.
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All eyes are on the middle
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East as we wait to see iran's next move.
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But trouble could be lurking in the shadows
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With our other adversaries, like china and russia.
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One man with his finger on the pulse of events
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All around the globe is our good friend, doctor randy martin.
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He's ceo of martin capital and founder of the rod
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Martin report, a great source
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For insight on domestic and global issues.
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Rod joins us now. rod. hey, things ramping up.
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Obviously we'll talk in a minute about israel, the u.s.
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And what comes next with iran.
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Obviously, president trump meeting with prime minister
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Netanyahu at the white house yesterday.
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But in the meantime,
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With all the focus on iran, what are china and russia up to?
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Let's start with china.
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You just wrote a great piece, rod, today.
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China is in the midst of a massive nuclear buildup.
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Tell us more about it and why we should be concerned.
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Well, they are, and this has to be understood
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In the context of the end of the new start
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Treaty, which is the last big nuclear arms control
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Treaty between the united states and the russians.
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That treaty limited both sides to 1500 weapons.
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That being the case, it makes it much, much harder
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For either side to go to war.
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And that's been the status quo, more or less,
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Since the end of the cold war.
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China has never been part of that.
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China has never entered into any of these arms
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Control treaties with us or the russians.
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And all of a sudden it's building up like, man,
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They have tripled their number
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Of nuclear warheads in the last decade.
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They say they're on track to increase
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That by another 250%.
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This is really destabilizing for this key reason.
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We haven't had to worry about them before.
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But now, because you're talking about that many weapons,
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If theoretically they ganged up with the russians,
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They would have twice as many weapons
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They could fire at the united states
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As the united states could fire at them,
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And that could potentially force a surrender without war.
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Yeah, rod,
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The communist regime in beijing is in the midst
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Right now, really, of the largest
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Military and nuclear build up, arguably since world war two.
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But what's the regime's motivation with this build up?
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A message to the united states, who they are
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Targeting as their great adversary
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And the force really, they need to overthrow
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And supplant to become that global power.
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Yeah, they're not really that
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Interested in the messaging as they are in the dominance.
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You know, they they see themselves
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As the middle kingdom and and we know that term.
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That's that's the usual and customary english
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Translation of the chinese term for china.
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But what it really means is the central kingdom,
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They are the center of the universe
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From their own point of view.
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And they're very open about it. they're very clear about it.
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And this is rooted
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Deeply in confucian thought going back thousands of years.
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This is a country that sees its rightful place
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As dominating everything it surveys.
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So the nuclear buildup is part of that.
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It's also part of offsetting the deep population crisis
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That is well underway.
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It is.
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It is a moment in time that is incredibly dangerous.
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This next decade,
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They really have to grab everything they can,
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Or they're not going to
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Have the demographic ability to grab those things.
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And the timing is not accidental.
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So it is very concerning.
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The maduro capture obviously now possible action against iran,
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China and russia
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And other adversaries, north korea also,
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They have to be taking notes right now
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And watching this very closely.
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If president trump agrees to a deal with the ayatollahs.
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Is that a sign of weakness?
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Do you think, after his promises
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That iran would be held accountable
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For the slaughter of its own citizens?
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Help is on the way.
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If he agreed to a deal after this massive military
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Build up, by the way, surrounding iran right now,
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How would our enemies perceive that
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Essentially letting the regime off the hook?
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Help is on the way.
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You know, we have to dot our eyes here.
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We have to go through the motions of these talks.
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The truth is,
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The president keeps articulating three primary points
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That must be agreed to by the iranians.
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And the iranians have rejected all three of them
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As even being topics of discussion.
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There's not going to be an agreement
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And rumor as of last night, is of a second u.s.
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Carrier strike group moving toward the gulf.
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Don't know
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If that's confirmed yet, but the president is assembling
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Just an unbelievable armada in region.
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And not only that, but there's tremendous, tremendous
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Amounts of military transport planes flying into the region.
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Believe me, with lots of stuff.
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Some of that is missile defenses
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To protect our existing assets.
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Some of that is highly offensive.
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And you're seeing f-35s and everything else going in region.
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And by the way, it's not just us.
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Some of our nato allies are participating in that.
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So i think the ayatollah will continue to bluster
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Until he can't, just as he did going into the 12 day war.
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And you see how that ended?
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Yeah, we saw the intentional mixed
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Messaging and psychological warfare
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On behalf of president trump.
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And israel prior to the 12 day war.
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And it seemed to blow the iranian regime
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Into a sense of complacency.
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Then israel struck and the u.s.
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Finish it off with operation midnight hammer,
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Destroying iran's nuclear weapons facilities.
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Perhaps we're seeing that sort of swerve once again.
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It was at the white house yesterday.
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President trump saying he wants a deal, but again,
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Could be a smokescreen before action.
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President trump has been a man of his word,
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Especially regarding iran, over both of his terms.
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So the world watches and waits for more with doctor rod martin
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After the break.
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What about cuba at america's doorstep?
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Is that regime in trouble because of president trump's
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Leverage and pressure and greenland still on the table?
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More with doctor rod martin after the break. stick around.
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More with doctor rod martin after the break. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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We're talking about good friend
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Rod martin, ceo of martin capital
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And founder of the rod martin report.
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Rod, i mentioned venezuela before the break
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And they're in trouble now, obviously, after
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President trump's decisive move to apprehend nicolas maduro.
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But cuba, venezuela's close ally, communist regime
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90 miles from florida, from the
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From the south coast of the united states.
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They seem to be teetering right now.
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And the trump administration is turning up the heat.
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Tell us more about the state of play in cuba right now,
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And what the fall of that regime would mean for our hemisphere.
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Well, the cuban regime is toast.
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It's really just a matter of when.
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They existed for a very long time
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On the subsidies that came from the soviet union.
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The soviet union is long gone.
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Russia can't afford to do the things that that cuba needs.
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And if it tried to, the primary thing cuba needs is fuel.
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And the united states will just interdict all those tankers.
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The president is destroying
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The shadow fleet as we watch in real time.
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So without venezuela to send them oil
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And indirectly cash, they really are cut off.
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And they have gotten some oil from the mexicans.
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That's ending. china is an importer.
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They can't send any.
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They really are on the ropes.
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And when that regime finally falls, hopefully
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From within, we've got a shot at a democratic government there
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And it will be a paradise once it's free.
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Yeah, the monroe doctrine is back.
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Some have called it the monroe doctrine under president trump.
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Can you talk about how president trump
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Is transforming, really, the western hemisphere?
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He actually is.
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And and you're seeing that in the rise of javier mollaei.
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What's happened in argentina is just phenomenal.
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The election victories in in chile
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And other countries, south of our border.
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And now the venezuela deal.
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And. yeah,
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Okay, elements of the old regime are still running the country,
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But they're running it at donald trump's direction.
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And that's going to result in a democratic transition.
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You'll see
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The opposition in power probably before the end of this year.
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And and that's just phenomenal that that's a game changer
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Because venezuela has the ability
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To be the richest country in the hemisphere
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Aside from the united states.
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And it would be glorious to see it happen.
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Yeah. massive oil wealth obviously.
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Oil deposits for sure.
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Hey, moving north far to the north.
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Greenland.
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President trump is in davos a few weeks ago, of course,
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Talked once again about acquiring greenland.
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Some people have said, why all the fixation on greenland?
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Rocky break down, why
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Greenland is really essential to america's national security,
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Especially with china and russia.
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Quite literally lurking in those waters.
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Greenland has been vital for a long time.
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We occupied it in world war two because the germans wanted
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Control of it.
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And the reason is simple any any enemy naval craft
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Coming from the eastern part of europe,
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Whether you're talking about russia or nazi germany,
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Has to come out through either the north sea or,
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You know, further north, the arctic,
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And come into the north atlantic through that greenland,
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Iceland, uk gap that you see on the map right now.
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If you don't control greenland, you can't control the north
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Atlantic, and shipping
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Between nato allies becomes nearly impossible.
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So so it's vital just for that.
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But also,
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If the arctic sea lines really are going to open up,
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Whether that's because of global warming
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Or just because of
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A multiplication
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Of nuclear icebreakers, which is probably much more likely,
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It becomes a really vital transport node.
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It's cheaper to ship that route from china to to europe,
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Or vice versa, than it is to go through the panama suez canal.
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So the chinese and the russians are absolutely committed
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To controlling it.
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And finally, it's an essential piece
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Of geography for trump's golden dome missile defense.
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Most russian nuclear missiles would have to pass over
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Greenland.
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It's essential that we be able to detect them
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And shoot them down from there. rod.
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Great breakdown.
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You just laid out the case completely.
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It's so vital that that large landmass, that piece of land.
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Hey, last question.
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We've been talking international.
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Can't let you go about 30s left
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Without asking you about the midterms in november.
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They're lurking there. coming up.
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How are you feeling?
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Right now about the midterms?
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We've heard a lot of chatter.
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Obviously it's going to be a blow out.
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Republicans blown out of the water in this.
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But how are you seeing the midterms as of now.
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Still got a long way to go of course.
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The truth is, this should be a republican blowout.
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We've got redistricting working in our favor.
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The supreme court is probably going
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To get rid of these racist, racially gerrymandered districts
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That are all democrat held, and which is ridiculous
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Because twice
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As many black democrats hold seats that aren't racially
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Gerrymandered.
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So all of that's nonsense.
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That's just a sop to the democratic party.
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And on top of that, the economy is just roaring
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By middle of this year,
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You're going to be in the middle of a supply side boom.
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That is like nothing we've ever seen.
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And that's going to be felt in the pocketbooks of america.
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Amen. the stakes are very, very high.
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On our 250th anniversary of the founding of the united states.
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Rod, great job is always my friend. folks.
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Follow him on x. he is a must follow on x.
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Check out the rod martin report. rod.
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God bless my friend. great job. we'll see you again soon.
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And coming up after the break christian zionism
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Catching a lot of criticism. these days.
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Our next guest makes the case for followers of jesus
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Standing with the one and only jewish state.
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That's next. stick around.
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That's next. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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After the attacks of october 7th, the world divided over
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The topic of israel
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Support of the world's one
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And only jewish state has divided
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Groups, college campuses, even political parties.
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On top of that, the term
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Christian zionism, one founded on biblical
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And legal beliefs, has now become a hot button issue,
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With some voices on the right comparing it to a brain virus.
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Now, more than ever, israel needs
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The support of the united states and its christian allies.
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One person leading that charge is our good
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Friend, doctor susan michael.
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She's the usa president of the international
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Christian embassy, jerusalem, and author of the great new book
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Christian zionism a biblical response
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To confusion, criticism and cultural pressure.
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Susan, always great to see you.
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Great job on the book and we talk about people like
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Tucker carlson,
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For instance, who said, there's no one who can stand less
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Than christian zionists.
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Of course,
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We hear the left bashing christian zionism, islamist.
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Why the focus, the increase?
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And look, we see the anti-semitism, of course.
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But along with that, an increase in hostility towards christian
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Supporters of israel.
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Well, we have to understand that we are in this battle,
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Along with the jewish people, along with the people of israel.
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So if we the wave of anti-semitism,
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Which is anti-israel, which is against the jewish
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People, is going to be
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Against their supporters and their friends.
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And so one of the, you know, the targets here is to make us
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Look like that we are wrong, that we're heresy.
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And then to, diminish the amount of support that israel has.
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That's really what's behind it.
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But to, you know, for tucker carlson to say that
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That, christian zionism was like a brain virus
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Where the people he had abhors more than any other
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In the world, that means more than the islamic jihadist means
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More than hamas, more than iran, you know,
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More than boko haram that's been massacring christians.
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We're worse than that.
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That's just crazy.
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He also said he just recently read through the bible
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For the first time.
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So i'm thinking he needs to read it a little bit more.
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Yeah. i don't know when he starts
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Talking about what's heresy.
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Yeah. susan great point.
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I don't know how any honest reading of god's word after that
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You could come out as anything but a zionist
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Because god's eternal covenant to his people and his land,
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They're all there in both the old and new testament.
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Seems like clearly
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This is a spiritual battle that is just intensifying.
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No, definitely it's a
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Spiritual battle, and that's why it doesn't go away.
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It rises up generation after generation after generation.
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The the scourge of anti-semitism.
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So it's definitely spiritual.
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You know, the thing about zionism is that the,
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The devil is so good at twisting words
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And he has destroyed the word zionism,
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When really it's a biblical concept at heart.
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And the the christian zionism is a biblical movement.
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And so it's time for us to reclaim these term, these terms,
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And better define them and stand up for them.
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And that's why i wrote this book,
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To provide just that, that we can stand up and proudly say,
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I am a christian zionist, and this is what it means.
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And by the way, susan, the recent studies
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Show that 91% of jews in america feel unsafe.
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That's stunning.
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And it gives you an idea
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Of why christian believers need to stand shoulder to shoulder
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With our jewish brothers and sisters, now more than ever.
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There are many reasons for christians to support israel,
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And they span everything from personal reasons
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To political reasons to just practical reasons.
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We benefit from israel.
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There are moral reasons.
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Once a christian learns about the history
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Of christian anti-semitism, and they
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They want to make amends and stand with the jewish people.
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This is a wonderful way to do that.
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So there are many reasons to support israel.
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And you would be a christian who is a zionist.
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But when we want to use the term christian zionism,
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We are describing a theology.
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It's a biblical framework for what the bible teaches about
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The return of the jewish people to their land.
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And when we understand the it's a clear biblical concept,
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As you said, from beginning to end
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Throughout the old testament, throughout the new testament,
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It's assumed
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If you know how to read a lot of the new testament scriptures,
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You'll see that the writers assumed the future
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Return of the jewish people to their homeland.
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And, so it's a biblical concept
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And one that's very, very foundational
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To evangelical christianity or any bible based christianity.
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Yeah, those covenants are eternal.
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They are everlasting.
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Susan, you make a great case in the book, folks.
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It's a must read for the times we're living in right now.
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And folks, remember,
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You can pick it up at amazon.com where i see e.j.
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Usa talk. susan, keep up the great work.
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Thanks again. we'll see you again soon.
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God bless you.
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And coming up next, my final thoughts on the way
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The world is going and what the bible says about it.
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That's next. stick around.
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That's next. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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As we wrap up here.
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Look, we live in an upside down world.
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And oftentimes here in the show, including tonight,
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We're talking about some very heavy subject matter. tonight.
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Israel. iran. china.
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Russia. wars and rumors of wars.
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Sound familiar?
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Matthew chapter 24, verse six, the olivet discourse.
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Jesus said,
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You will hear of wars and rumors of wars,
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But see to it that you are not alarmed.
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Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.
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Look, you can expect the wars and rumors of wars to intensify
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Folks in the days to come, but keep looking up.
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Be encouraged because god almighty is still on the throne.
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He is in control, and he's got a great imprint
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On the city of caesarea by the sea.
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And israel will take you there tomorrow night
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With a good friend, danny the bigger herman.
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Until then, god bless you, and we'll see you soon.
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