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April 15, 2026 | 23:29

Erick Stakelbeck: Hezbollah Facing Collapse? | Stakelbeck Tonight
From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it's clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we're witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.
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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Hezbollah Facing Collapse? | Stakelbeck Tonight | April 15, 2026
  • Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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  • I'm erick stakelbeck and we can't
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  • Talk about the iranian regime's 47 year reign.
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  • Of terror.
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  • Without talking about his belief.
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  • The lebanon based terror group is the crown jewel
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  • Among iran's many regional proxies.
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  • Iran's ayatollahs created hezbollah way back in 1982,
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  • And over the past several decades,
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  • The so-called party of allah grew
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  • Into the world's most powerful terrorist organization.
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  • Some 150,000 rockets and missiles at their disposal,
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  • Not to mention a fleet of attack drones, plus
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  • Tens of thousands of fanatical footsoldiers
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  • Ready and willing to storm across the border and invade
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  • Israel from their base in southern lebanon.
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  • It would have been october 7th on steroids,
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  • But a funny thing happened
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  • On the way to hezbollah's conquest of northern israel.
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  • It all began on september 17th, 2024,
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  • When israel carried out the now legendary beeper operation that
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  • Put thousands of top hezbollah fighters out of action.
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  • Then came the elimination of hezbollah's military
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  • And political leadership,
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  • Including secretary general hassan nasrallah.
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  • Israel.
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  • Follow those takeouts with a ground invasion
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  • That pushed hezbollah back beyond a little tiny river
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  • Some 20 miles from the israel lebanon border.
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  • And now israel is well on its way to finishing the job
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  • And ensuring that hezbollah never threatens the jewish state
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  • In any meaningful way ever again.
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  • On tuesday, representatives from israel and lebanon met
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  • In washington, dc for historic peace talks aimed
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  • At ending hezbollah's dark influence in lebanon,
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  • Where they've really established a state within a state,
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  • All with the active support and funding of the iranian regime.
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  • The good news is the talks seem to have gone very well.
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  • Here's israel's ambassador to the united states,
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  • Shaquille leiter, who led the israeli delegation.
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  • We discovered today
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  • That we're on the same side of the equation.
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  • That's the most positive thing we could have come away with.
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  • We are both united
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  • In liberating lebanon from an occupation power
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  • Dominated by iran called hezbollah.
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  • Lebanon is under the occupation,
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  • And we are suffering from
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  • There.
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  • Constant barrages of missiles
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  • And terror attacks, trying to cross the border.
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  • Now, secretary of state marco rubio sat in
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  • On the meetings and he shared the ambassador's optimism.
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  • Hezbollah and its masters in tehran have never been weaker,
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  • And there is a
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  • Golden opportunity here to free the people of lebanon
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  • From hezbollah's demonic grip.
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  • Here's more from secretary rubio.
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  • Folks, it's very clear
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  • We are on the verge of a new middle east.
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  • And joining us now to break it all down is marty shoshana,
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  • Co-host of boots on the ground right here on tbn.
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  • You can also check marty out on the tbn israel youtube channel,
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  • Which now has over 1.7 million subscribers.
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  • Marty, great to see my friend joining us from jerusalem.
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  • Hezbollah in big trouble after being a thorn in the side
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  • Of israel and the free world
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  • For over 44 years at this point, founded in 1982.
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  • What's your take, marty?
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  • There's still, the pounding going on.
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  • Israel hitting hezbollah, hezbollah launching rockets.
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  • But do you sense that hezbollah
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  • May be being backed into a corner here,
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  • Especially with these negotiations in d.c. yesterday?
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  • Yeah.
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  • First of all, eric, it's great to be with you always.
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  • Hezbollah is in a very tricky situation
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  • Right now on multiple different aspects.
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  • One, they're fighting a war that we need to clearly state.
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  • They don't want to
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  • Be fighting this war because they're still licking
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  • Their wounds from what happened last year.
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  • We have a ceasefire.
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  • I want to remind you, with lebanon
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  • Was supposed to be dismantling
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  • Hezbollah as a terrorist organization
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  • And pushing them back within lebanon.
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  • They've been very limited in their success on this topic.
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  • Okay. but a lot of didn't really want to fight this war.
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  • They're weakened.
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  • They have much less on the manpower front
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  • Than they did a year or two ago.
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  • They've lost much of their leadership.
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  • They've lost much of their support
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  • On the ground within lebanon proper.
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  • And there's an enormous amount
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  • Of pressure with them on them internally within lebanon.
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  • What's happening right now on
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  • The ground is very complicated and, bad for the hezbollah
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  • Terrorist organization. let me explain.
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  • For the first time in many, many years,
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  • They're facing substantial pressure on the ground
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  • From israeli forces.
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  • This operation is different
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  • Because instead of just trying to give them a strike
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  • And then move back,
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  • We're literally physically pushing them back
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  • All the way to the litani river line.
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  • So several dozen miles in certain points
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  • Beyond the border with israel. that's on the one side.
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  • On the second side of this,
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  • There's enormous internal pressure on hezbollah,
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  • The lebanese government, as opposed to them.
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  • The lebanese army, in parts and with limited amounts
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  • Of success, is also fighting them and trying to disarm them.
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  • And all this
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  • While israel has
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  • A very strong tailwind from the american administration,
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  • Which is essentially saying,
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  • Go as strong as you can against hezbollah
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  • Before we declare this ceasefire, before
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  • A permanent agreement is met with the lebanese government.
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  • And the last line here is, is the goal
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  • Here is to rebuild the lebanese people,
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  • Not just to hurt hezbollah,
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  • But create an alternative within lebanon.
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  • Finally,
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  • So those people can go to best back to some type of life
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  • That doesn't include hezbollah terrorizing its own people.
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  • Yeah, marty, great breakdown, as always.
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  • And look, hezbollah in big trouble.
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  • And the head of the snake in tehran,
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  • The iranian regime now also on the ropes.
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  • Do you think there's any chance here, marty,
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  • As we kind of survey the scene,
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  • That iran's ayatollahs come to the negotiating
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  • Table in good faith, if you can ever, use that term
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  • In the iranian regime in the same sentence.
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  • Will they need to be brought to their knees?
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  • Is the strait of hormuz blockade?
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  • Is that the way to do it?
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  • Because we're dealing here with fanatical jihadists
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  • Who don't seem very eager to compromise.
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  • Yeah.
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  • You're accurate.
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  • Obviously, the, regime of the ayatollah is lies.
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  • What i find to be fascinating in this entire equation
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  • Is that it seems like the trump negotiation team has dialed in
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  • On how to deal with, the irgc, how to deal with ayatollahs.
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  • Where do we see this?
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  • Over this last weekend, the vp of the united states
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  • And wyckoff and kushner,
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  • When they realized that the iranians
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  • Are not negotiate in good faith,
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  • They're stalling and playing their usual games.
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  • They get up and leave, and they just summarize
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  • A very long conversation, say to them,
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  • When you're ready to behave like adults, we'll be back.
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  • And the iranians, i think, were caught off guard with this.
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  • They've been used to their tactics
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  • Working for decades at this point, even against the u.s.
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  • Administration,
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  • In drawing out time and waiting until the last moment
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  • And then saying we were misunderstood.
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  • Actually, we did want peace.
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  • Actually, our nuclear plans are for
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  • Peaceful purposes and other lies such as that.
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  • And this time around, i think things are a little different.
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  • It seems like one,
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  • The trump white house has really figured out
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  • How to negotiate with them strongly.
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  • Two, there's this ongoing parallel pressure campaign
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  • That's taking place.
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  • It's one, a military campaign which is present in the blockade
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  • Right now.
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  • But at the same time,
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  • A negotiation that doesn't have an endless clock.
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  • You know, it's we all meet the deadline.
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  • We all find an agreement on these important points,
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  • Or we're back to war.
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  • And we have the assets. we have the manpower.
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  • You have the willingness.
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  • And you've seen us do this to strike hard.
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  • I think they're in a more uncomfortable position
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  • Now than they've been in a very long time.
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  • You know, say this ceasefire holds and the dust settles
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  • And elements of the regime are still in place and in control.
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  • What's israel's view of that?
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  • Is, is israel satisfied with that?
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  • Is there more work to be done?
  • 00:09:00.262 --> 00:09:01.831
  • How do you see the about a minute left.
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  • So israel's goal has always been more nuanced
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  • Than just black and white or removal of the administration,
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  • The ayatollahs.
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  • Or they say we want to weaken our enemies.
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  • We live here, we're not visiting this region,
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  • And we're not an enemy.
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  • You know, an army that's coming into park in this region.
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  • We live here day in, day out.
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  • And our goal has always been
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  • With hezbollah, with the 40s,
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  • And of course, with the iranian regime
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  • Is to weaken them as much as we can.
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  • If we can knock out their ballistic missiles,
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  • Their leadership, that's a win for us.
  • 00:09:29.425 --> 00:09:31.827
  • That's two, three, four years of quiet, at least on that front.
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  • And that, for israel, is a day
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  • Where we get to live a normal life in this country.
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  • Yeah. amen.
  • 00:09:39.368 --> 00:09:40.603
  • And there have been some heavy blows dealt with this regime.
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  • They will never be what they once were.
  • 00:09:42.705 --> 00:09:44.507
  • And that's a great thing, this historic operation
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  • By israel and the united states.
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  • And perhaps it's not over yet.
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  • We'll see.
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  • Shoshana, we know you're keeping a very close eye on it
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  • From on the ground in israel.
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  • Folks, follow him.
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  • Great stuff. god bless my friend.
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  • Stay safe. we'll see you again soon.
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  • Thank you.
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  • Coming up after the break, more on the global state of play.
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  • Folks, the chess pieces are moving,
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  • And doctor rod martin is here
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  • With a great breakdown on how to fetch you after the break.
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  • Stick around.
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  • Stick around.
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  • Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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  • Let's do the math.
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  • The us navy now controls the strait of hormuz.
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  • Iran's regime and hezbollah are on the ropes.
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  • Communist china is very worried.
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  • Arab nations like the uae are drawing closer
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  • To america and israel.
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  • And oh, yeah, europe is becoming a woke, islamist
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  • Sized afterthought. so
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  • Are we in the beginning stages of a complete global reset?
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  • We're joined now by doctor rod martin.
  • 00:10:52.975 --> 00:10:55.077
  • He's the ceo of martin capital and founder of the rod
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  • Martin report.
  • 00:10:58.013 --> 00:10:58.748
  • Check him out there.
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  • And also follow rod on x to get top notch analysis
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  • On the global state of play and how it affects you.
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  • Rod, great to have you with us.
  • 00:11:06.756 --> 00:11:08.424
  • Hey, this global reset
  • 00:11:08.424 --> 00:11:10.259
  • Not to be confused with the great reset
  • 00:11:10.259 --> 00:11:11.961
  • Of klaus schwab in the world economic forum, by the way.
  • 00:11:11.961 --> 00:11:15.231
  • This reset that we see developing,
  • 00:11:15.231 --> 00:11:18.234
  • A lot of it seems to hinge on oil, on energy
  • 00:11:18.234 --> 00:11:21.871
  • And the strait of hormuz blockading
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  • That, shutting iran off, and that oil revenue
  • 00:11:24.140 --> 00:11:27.109
  • Seems to be a big step in that regard.
  • 00:11:27.109 --> 00:11:29.411
  • Can you talk about that a bit, rod?
  • 00:11:29.411 --> 00:11:30.679
  • How energy
  • 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:32.014
  • And not only factors into that reset,
  • 00:11:32.014 --> 00:11:34.717
  • But into president trump's thinking here in his
  • 00:11:34.717 --> 00:11:37.520
  • Grander strategic vision?
  • 00:11:37.520 --> 00:11:39.789
  • Well, it's really kind of remarkable
  • 00:11:40.556 --> 00:11:42.358
  • How americans have come to just take energy for granted.
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  • We have an incredible abundance of it.
  • 00:11:46.529 --> 00:11:49.765
  • We're now the world's largest producer of oil
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  • By a wide margin.
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  • We produce more than saudi arabia and russia combined.
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  • We're the third largest exporter in the world.
  • 00:11:58.340 --> 00:12:00.943
  • We're also the world's first
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  • Largest exporter of of refined product.
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  • And, you know, you just turn on the light
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  • Switch and it's there.
  • 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:11.420
  • So people have lost a sense of just
  • 00:12:11.420 --> 00:12:14.957
  • How crucial energy is to absolutely everything.
  • 00:12:14.957 --> 00:12:18.527
  • You take away that electricity, you take away that fuel.
  • 00:12:18.527 --> 00:12:21.997
  • And i'm back to only that work which i can personally do
  • 00:12:21.997 --> 00:12:26.235
  • With my personal muscles and maybe a donkey.
  • 00:12:26.235 --> 00:12:29.805
  • And, you know, that's
  • 00:12:29.805 --> 00:12:31.207
  • Just a terrible world to have to live in. yeah.
  • 00:12:31.207 --> 00:12:33.676
  • So so the whole world
  • 00:12:33.676 --> 00:12:35.711
  • Runs on energy to a degree we don't normally think about.
  • 00:12:35.711 --> 00:12:39.782
  • And the president thinks about it nonstop.
  • 00:12:39.782 --> 00:12:43.352
  • So we have seen him very rapidly
  • 00:12:43.352 --> 00:12:46.789
  • And in just over a year, take control of pretty
  • 00:12:46.789 --> 00:12:50.860
  • Much every choke point on planet earth.
  • 00:12:50.860 --> 00:12:55.130
  • We just had this new agreement with the indonesians,
  • 00:12:55.130 --> 00:12:58.300
  • In the last 48 hours.
  • 00:12:58.801 --> 00:13:00.469
  • That's extraordinary.
  • 00:13:00.469 --> 00:13:01.937
  • They've always been part of the nonaligned movement.
  • 00:13:01.937 --> 00:13:04.440
  • They they've jealously guarded their neutrality.
  • 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:07.343
  • Now they're in a defense
  • 00:13:07.343 --> 00:13:08.477
  • Cooperation agreement with the united states.
  • 00:13:08.477 --> 00:13:11.513
  • Between that and malaysia and singapore.
  • 00:13:11.513 --> 00:13:13.916
  • That gives us
  • 00:13:13.916 --> 00:13:14.950
  • Utter and total control of the strait of malacca,
  • 00:13:14.950 --> 00:13:17.453
  • Which is where 80% of china's oil passes through.
  • 00:13:17.453 --> 00:13:21.624
  • The president is dead
  • 00:13:21.624 --> 00:13:23.259
  • Set on america being the world's largest exporter,
  • 00:13:23.259 --> 00:13:27.696
  • The world's largest producer, the world's largest supplier.
  • 00:13:27.696 --> 00:13:31.300
  • We want our allies to be safe
  • 00:13:31.300 --> 00:13:33.269
  • Because they're
  • 00:13:33.269 --> 00:13:34.503
  • Buying their oil from us and not becoming dependent on russia
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  • And the middle east.
  • 00:13:37.640 --> 00:13:38.908
  • And all of this fits together first to make america great.
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  • Second, to
  • 00:13:43.812 --> 00:13:45.214
  • Constrain china enough that they can't afford to go to war.
  • 00:13:45.214 --> 00:13:49.084
  • Yeah, right.
  • 00:13:49.084 --> 00:13:50.219
  • Look, it's all strategic on the part of president trump
  • 00:13:50.219 --> 00:13:52.121
  • As compared to what he's doing with iran,
  • 00:13:52.121 --> 00:13:54.156
  • To the run up to president reagan
  • 00:13:54.156 --> 00:13:55.925
  • In the decades before he became president,
  • 00:13:55.925 --> 00:13:57.927
  • He was studying the soviet empire and how to defeat it.
  • 00:13:57.927 --> 00:14:01.130
  • When you think of iran, for instance,
  • 00:14:01.130 --> 00:14:03.198
  • Trump was talking about this in 1980, 87, 88.
  • 00:14:03.198 --> 00:14:06.702
  • We've got old clips of him talking about
  • 00:14:06.702 --> 00:14:08.304
  • Seizing kharg island, bringing the iranian regime to its knees.
  • 00:14:08.304 --> 00:14:11.974
  • Can you talk a bit
  • 00:14:11.974 --> 00:14:13.242
  • More about the strategy at work on behalf of president trump?
  • 00:14:13.242 --> 00:14:16.211
  • Because his critics say, look, he's shooting from the hip.
  • 00:14:16.211 --> 00:14:18.814
  • We have no end game here.
  • 00:14:18.814 --> 00:14:20.282
  • He's been thinking about this for a long, long time.
  • 00:14:20.282 --> 00:14:23.152
  • And as you just laid out, we're seeing the fruits of it now.
  • 00:14:23.152 --> 00:14:26.889
  • Yeah.
  • 00:14:27.122 --> 00:14:27.656
  • They're just they're
  • 00:14:27.656 --> 00:14:28.824
  • Just showing their own refusal to do the homework. yeah.
  • 00:14:28.824 --> 00:14:31.160
  • I mean, this isn't hard.
  • 00:14:31.160 --> 00:14:32.962
  • Trump's been talking as much as any human
  • 00:14:32.962 --> 00:14:36.832
  • Has ever talked, ever, for as long as anybody can remember.
  • 00:14:36.832 --> 00:14:41.603
  • I mean, i was a little bitty kid
  • 00:14:41.603 --> 00:14:43.238
  • When he was making those statements in 1980 about iran.
  • 00:14:43.238 --> 00:14:47.443
  • And they weren't one iota different
  • 00:14:47.443 --> 00:14:49.611
  • From what he's saying today.
  • 00:14:49.611 --> 00:14:51.580
  • He has been absolutely consistent
  • 00:14:51.580 --> 00:14:54.183
  • On these things, really, the only public policy shift
  • 00:14:54.183 --> 00:14:57.820
  • He's made of any significance in all that time is in 2011.
  • 00:14:57.820 --> 00:15:02.157
  • He became pro-life.
  • 00:15:02.157 --> 00:15:03.592
  • So, you know, that's a big shift.
  • 00:15:03.592 --> 00:15:05.761
  • But aside from that, he's been just laser focused.
  • 00:15:05.761 --> 00:15:09.832
  • And this is something that his critics always miss.
  • 00:15:09.832 --> 00:15:14.136
  • The other thing they miss, and you alluded to it,
  • 00:15:14.136 --> 00:15:17.306
  • Is the degree
  • 00:15:17.306 --> 00:15:18.474
  • To which he just imbibed so deeply from ronald reagan.
  • 00:15:18.474 --> 00:15:23.012
  • Yeah.
  • 00:15:23.012 --> 00:15:24.079
  • He watched how reagan boxed in the soviet union
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  • When no one else believed that was possible.
  • 00:15:26.448 --> 00:15:28.851
  • The republican establishment was dead
  • 00:15:28.851 --> 00:15:31.020
  • Set against reagan's strategy.
  • 00:15:31.020 --> 00:15:33.188
  • They thought it was warmongering.
  • 00:15:33.188 --> 00:15:34.790
  • They thought it would bring about world war three
  • 00:15:34.790 --> 00:15:38.293
  • Like we're always hearing today.
  • 00:15:38.293 --> 00:15:40.729
  • And, you know, none of that was true.
  • 00:15:40.729 --> 00:15:43.165
  • What was true was you had a communist system
  • 00:15:43.165 --> 00:15:46.235
  • That was incredibly fragile, and he faced them down
  • 00:15:46.235 --> 00:15:50.706
  • With an arms race they couldn't afford
  • 00:15:50.706 --> 00:15:53.442
  • While working out a deal
  • 00:15:53.442 --> 00:15:54.777
  • With saudi arabia to collapse the price of oil,
  • 00:15:54.777 --> 00:15:58.013
  • Which dried up their foreign
  • 00:15:58.013 --> 00:15:59.548
  • Currency earnings at just the moment they needed the most.
  • 00:15:59.548 --> 00:16:03.352
  • That's what trump's doing here.
  • 00:16:03.352 --> 00:16:05.254
  • He is drying up the ability of china to finance a war.
  • 00:16:05.254 --> 00:16:10.959
  • And not only that, but he is closing the gaps
  • 00:16:10.959 --> 00:16:14.830
  • Through which
  • 00:16:14.830 --> 00:16:16.065
  • They would get the supplies they need to be able to conduct
  • 00:16:16.065 --> 00:16:18.600
  • Such a war. it's really quite extraordinary.
  • 00:16:18.600 --> 00:16:21.270
  • Yeah, rod.
  • 00:16:21.270 --> 00:16:22.304
  • Great breakdown. whether it's reagan or trump.
  • 00:16:22.304 --> 00:16:24.373
  • Peace through strength always works.
  • 00:16:24.373 --> 00:16:26.675
  • And folks, more with rod martin after the break.
  • 00:16:26.675 --> 00:16:29.144
  • You mentioned china.
  • 00:16:29.144 --> 00:16:30.379
  • What is the state of play with the communist regime in beijing?
  • 00:16:30.379 --> 00:16:33.549
  • What about russia?
  • 00:16:33.549 --> 00:16:34.750
  • They're still lurking more with rod martin after the break.
  • 00:16:34.750 --> 00:16:37.519
  • Stick around.
  • 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:40.008
  • Stick around.
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  • Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight
  • 00:16:44.295 --> 00:16:45.863
  • We're talking to doctor rod martin. folks.
  • 00:16:45.863 --> 00:16:48.032
  • You can check him out at the rod martin report.
  • 00:16:48.032 --> 00:16:49.667
  • Also, he is a must follow on.
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  • Please follow him there.
  • 00:16:52.069 --> 00:16:54.105
  • Rod china.
  • 00:16:54.105 --> 00:16:55.072
  • The conventional wisdom
  • 00:16:55.072 --> 00:16:56.073
  • At least i guess in the mainstream media
  • 00:16:56.073 --> 00:16:57.808
  • In particular, is that communist china is the world's
  • 00:16:57.808 --> 00:17:01.011
  • Next superpower, that they are ascendant.
  • 00:17:01.011 --> 00:17:04.081
  • And yet you've been writing that all is not what it seems
  • 00:17:04.081 --> 00:17:07.518
  • Beneath the surface for china's communist regime.
  • 00:17:07.518 --> 00:17:10.721
  • We've even got mexico perhaps replacing china soon
  • 00:17:10.721 --> 00:17:15.092
  • As the main source of american imports.
  • 00:17:15.092 --> 00:17:18.295
  • Tell us a bit more about the state of things
  • 00:17:18.295 --> 00:17:20.397
  • In china right now.
  • 00:17:20.397 --> 00:17:21.632
  • They're having some serious struggles, which have only been
  • 00:17:21.632 --> 00:17:23.834
  • Put into overdrive by the iran war.
  • 00:17:23.834 --> 00:17:27.138
  • That shift to mexico is already well underway.
  • 00:17:27.138 --> 00:17:30.941
  • And it's not just mexico, it's india, it's vietnam.
  • 00:17:30.941 --> 00:17:34.545
  • It's a number of places,
  • 00:17:34.545 --> 00:17:36.046
  • But mexico is probably the chief beneficiary.
  • 00:17:36.046 --> 00:17:40.117
  • And it's very, very simple.
  • 00:17:40.117 --> 00:17:41.585
  • Since the beginning of nafta.
  • 00:17:41.585 --> 00:17:43.687
  • Mexico's wages on average
  • 00:17:43.687 --> 00:17:46.490
  • Have increased about 300%, which is tremendous.
  • 00:17:46.490 --> 00:17:50.094
  • Yay for mexico.
  • 00:17:50.094 --> 00:17:51.795
  • China's over the same period have increased
  • 00:17:51.795 --> 00:17:54.832
  • Between 1000% and 1500%.
  • 00:17:54.832 --> 00:17:59.003
  • So if you're outsourcing, to to try to get cheap
  • 00:17:59.003 --> 00:18:03.073
  • Labor, china's not your destination anymore.
  • 00:18:03.073 --> 00:18:06.310
  • And that means a lot
  • 00:18:06.310 --> 00:18:07.545
  • Of the lower end and mid-range manufacturing that gravitated
  • 00:18:07.545 --> 00:18:11.715
  • To china over the last 30 years is now fleeing china.
  • 00:18:11.715 --> 00:18:15.853
  • And you add to that the tariff situation.
  • 00:18:15.853 --> 00:18:18.522
  • You add to that trump's very hardball trade
  • 00:18:18.522 --> 00:18:22.826
  • And foreign policy, and it makes a lot of sense
  • 00:18:22.826 --> 00:18:26.297
  • To shelter somewhere where you aren't subject to that.
  • 00:18:26.297 --> 00:18:30.701
  • So one of the things the president did was
  • 00:18:30.701 --> 00:18:33.504
  • He told a lot of
  • 00:18:33.504 --> 00:18:34.672
  • Foreign companies, look, if you'll even make an effort
  • 00:18:34.672 --> 00:18:38.008
  • To start building some of your plants
  • 00:18:38.008 --> 00:18:39.977
  • In the united states, we want to impose tariffs
  • 00:18:39.977 --> 00:18:43.280
  • On the goods you ship from elsewhere.
  • 00:18:43.280 --> 00:18:45.549
  • Well, that helped set off a flurry of factory expansion.
  • 00:18:45.549 --> 00:18:49.687
  • But mexico is actually within the usmca area.
  • 00:18:49.687 --> 00:18:53.924
  • You can build in mexico and have access
  • 00:18:53.924 --> 00:18:56.794
  • To the us market with virtually no tariffs.
  • 00:18:56.794 --> 00:19:00.397
  • And that can be very beneficial for some of this lower to mid
  • 00:19:00.397 --> 00:19:05.202
  • Range manufacturing without affecting the united states.
  • 00:19:05.202 --> 00:19:09.473
  • Ross perot's giant sucking sound isn't going to come
  • 00:19:09.473 --> 00:19:13.277
  • From the united states,
  • 00:19:13.277 --> 00:19:15.079
  • Anymore because, all those jobs already left.
  • 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:18.682
  • The jobs that left are now coming back.
  • 00:19:18.682 --> 00:19:22.353
  • The high end stuff, the chip fabs, all of this
  • 00:19:22.353 --> 00:19:26.590
  • High end manufacturing that really counts.
  • 00:19:26.590 --> 00:19:30.160
  • He's coming to america.
  • 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:31.996
  • It's slightly poorer cousins coming to mexico.
  • 00:19:31.996 --> 00:19:36.967
  • And you're getting
  • 00:19:36.967 --> 00:19:38.068
  • An overall economic package in north america.
  • 00:19:38.068 --> 00:19:42.206
  • That's just going to be globally dominant.
  • 00:19:42.206 --> 00:19:44.341
  • Yeah it's a new day.
  • 00:19:44.341 --> 00:19:45.242
  • And you've written that president trump
  • 00:19:45.242 --> 00:19:46.410
  • Is basically smashing the status quo.
  • 00:19:46.410 --> 00:19:48.612
  • He's not looking to maintain it.
  • 00:19:48.612 --> 00:19:50.314
  • He's looking to replace it.
  • 00:19:50.314 --> 00:19:51.582
  • And that's exactly what's happening is benefiting
  • 00:19:51.582 --> 00:19:54.018
  • The american worker.
  • 00:19:54.018 --> 00:19:55.252
  • Speaking of the status quo, rod, great britain, historically
  • 00:19:55.252 --> 00:19:58.889
  • Perhaps our greatest ally is that alliance right now
  • 00:19:58.889 --> 00:20:02.493
  • Under the left wing woke leadership of keir starmer,
  • 00:20:02.493 --> 00:20:05.763
  • Kind of on its last legs.
  • 00:20:05.763 --> 00:20:07.331
  • And what about nato in general?
  • 00:20:07.331 --> 00:20:09.033
  • There's rumblings that we may pull out of nato.
  • 00:20:09.033 --> 00:20:10.934
  • Nato has proven itself
  • 00:20:10.934 --> 00:20:12.036
  • To be completely ineffectual and not a loyal ally.
  • 00:20:12.036 --> 00:20:16.540
  • Needless to say, during the iran war.
  • 00:20:16.540 --> 00:20:18.509
  • What's the future of our relationship
  • 00:20:18.509 --> 00:20:20.411
  • With western europe? the uk in particular?
  • 00:20:20.411 --> 00:20:23.981
  • Well, not
  • 00:20:24.281 --> 00:20:25.215
  • Just ineffectual, downright freeloading.
  • 00:20:25.215 --> 00:20:27.618
  • I mean, it's just absurd.
  • 00:20:27.618 --> 00:20:29.820
  • Germany showed up at a nato exercise a few years ago
  • 00:20:29.820 --> 00:20:34.091
  • With its infantrymen carrying broomsticks,
  • 00:20:34.091 --> 00:20:37.127
  • Because they didn't have enough rifles to go around.
  • 00:20:37.127 --> 00:20:40.397
  • I mean, how pathetic is that?
  • 00:20:40.397 --> 00:20:42.599
  • This is a country that has the world's third largest economy.
  • 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:45.969
  • For heaven's sake, great britain,
  • 00:20:45.969 --> 00:20:48.138
  • That used to rule the seas.
  • 00:20:48.138 --> 00:20:50.307
  • They haven't been able to get a single destroyer
  • 00:20:50.307 --> 00:20:52.710
  • To cyprus to defend their bases there.
  • 00:20:52.710 --> 00:20:55.346
  • After five weeks, they can't get the ship out of port.
  • 00:20:55.346 --> 00:20:59.616
  • It can't operate in warmer water without the engine
  • 00:20:59.616 --> 00:21:02.886
  • Breaking down.
  • 00:21:02.886 --> 00:21:03.754
  • And it's not just that one ship,
  • 00:21:03.754 --> 00:21:05.689
  • It's all of their escort fleet.
  • 00:21:05.689 --> 00:21:08.125
  • And the problem with that is they barely have any.
  • 00:21:08.125 --> 00:21:11.061
  • They've got these two aircraft
  • 00:21:11.061 --> 00:21:12.596
  • Carriers that are actually pretty good,
  • 00:21:12.596 --> 00:21:14.932
  • But they don't have enough escorts to make them valuable.
  • 00:21:14.932 --> 00:21:18.736
  • They can't go into combat like that.
  • 00:21:18.736 --> 00:21:21.105
  • A carrier has to have an entire carrier strike group
  • 00:21:21.105 --> 00:21:24.274
  • And they don't have it.
  • 00:21:24.274 --> 00:21:25.843
  • They have totally refused to build any these ships.
  • 00:21:25.843 --> 00:21:29.847
  • So right now, great britain has more admirals than warships.
  • 00:21:29.847 --> 00:21:35.519
  • The warships it has don't work.
  • 00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:38.455
  • It is just ridiculous.
  • 00:21:38.455 --> 00:21:40.157
  • But they expect us to come in and protect their oil
  • 00:21:40.157 --> 00:21:44.061
  • Coming out of the middle east.
  • 00:21:44.061 --> 00:21:45.262
  • That they should have been buying
  • 00:21:45.262 --> 00:21:46.330
  • From the united states in the first place.
  • 00:21:46.330 --> 00:21:48.365
  • They expect us to step up and pay the bill in ukraine.
  • 00:21:48.365 --> 00:21:51.969
  • I don't understand how the chancellor of
  • 00:21:51.969 --> 00:21:53.804
  • Germany can say that iran is not our war,
  • 00:21:53.804 --> 00:21:57.408
  • But somehow ukraine is our war.
  • 00:21:57.408 --> 00:22:00.310
  • In all cases whatsoever, they freeload on
  • 00:22:00.310 --> 00:22:03.447
  • The united states taxpayer and that's got to stop.
  • 00:22:03.447 --> 00:22:06.583
  • They've either got to snap it up or we've got to step back.
  • 00:22:06.583 --> 00:22:09.787
  • You know, rod so well said on every front
  • 00:22:09.787 --> 00:22:11.789
  • They have chosen to not defend their civilization.
  • 00:22:11.789 --> 00:22:15.325
  • Bottom line judeo-christian western civilization.
  • 00:22:15.325 --> 00:22:17.995
  • America under president trump.
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  • Key point there, under trump is really the last line of defense
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  • For the west.
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  • Rod great breakdown as always, folks.
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  • Check them out on the rod martin report on x.
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  • God bless rod. keep it up.
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  • We'll see you again soon.
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  • Up next, final thoughts on the global state of play.
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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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  • I see hezbollah and the iranian regime
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  • And their minions getting their comeuppance.
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  • And i think it's biblical justice.
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  • I think of jeremiah chapter 17, verse ten, i, the lord,
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  • Search the heart and examine the mind to reward each person
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  • According to their conduct,
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  • According to what their deeds deserve.
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  • Well, iran and its proxies have engaged in very evil,
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  • Wicked and demonic deeds over the years, and now
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  • It's all coming back on their heads again.
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  • Very biblical.
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  • God is a god of justice.
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  • Hey, tomorrow night, lisa smith is with us,
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  • Senator marsha blackburn,
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  • With whom i update you won't want to miss until then.
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  • God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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