Middle East Conflict Escalates as Retaliation Threats Grow

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Kuwait Airport has been hit. There was someone killed. 60 people injured. Iran has stated that their attacks now will intensify. I’m gonna have to do to some degree in this report, kind of like a we report you decide type of thing. I’m gonna have to leave my opinions on many of these things to the side. reason being is that, you know, I’m sorry, a lot of people I I report on these things. I hate.

I hate reporting on these things. I I really do. but people at this point in time they they’ve dug in their heels in regards to whatever position that they’ve had and they they don’t want to see the forest for the trees. the butts start coming out. But but but but but but it not looking good.

Okay, by by any stretch of the imagination, and I’ll I’ll try to explain why to some degree at the end. maybe we’ll start off yesterday, Marco Rubio is being grilled in Congress about what’s going on, and he made the statement that the war’s over.

The war is over. It’s kind of like that. Was that John Lennon Christmas song there when the kids are singing? You know, war is over. No, that that’s that was what Marco Rubio was saying yesterday. I’m to be out there, did you feel that this is over? We fired a I think a hellfire missile into a commercial ship tanker yesterday.

And Iran responded by hitting Kuwait Airport and some of the other bases that we have in the region. we hit the the fifth fleet headquarters in Bahrain, along with our bases in Kuwait, and an oil tanker near Dubai. Again, we shot at a hellfire missile. We also struck at this

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Keshem Island. and again, we I guess we took out some some sort of radar there. estimates that again I’ve several sources, but not fully confirmed. Telling you right now, we’ve sustained major damage to our radar facilities there. Some are saying upwards of eighty percent. Again, gotten from a myriad of different sources. I don’t know.

hasn’t been confirmed by the Pentagon, nor do I think that they would confirm that anytime soon. They wouldn’t want anybody to know if that was the case. Iran has stated that they’re done with the back and forth. Again, we, you know, keep using that word ceasefire, ceasefire, but we kept shooting. Fighting continues. they’re they’re done with the tit for tat. They’re now saying that they are gonna strike back at.

A hundred and fifty percent for every US attack, they’re not gonna it’s not gonna be proportionate anymore. They are going to up the ante.

We are and I’ve discussed this before on the program, these are just facts. Again, you don’t have to trust me. You can do your own homework on this as well. I’m not lying to you. first off, our strategic petroleum reserve is down to levels that

I again never never really seen before. And we’ve already had mentioned the CEOs from Exxon, Chevron, talk about how precarious our position is right now and how prices could spike significantly over the short term. we’re limited right now, quite frankly, obviously, in what

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We can do. Netanyahu was just doing PR. PR, I find this bloody fascinating. He’s doing PR. He was not just on CNBC saying, you know, in essence, that he and the president, everything’s fine, everything is awesome. We see eye to eye. you know, I find this fascinating as well as Israel’s gone to the United Nations to complain that some of their soldiers have been killed.

they were killed invading Lebanon.

So basically what they’re saying is they should be allowed to invade Lebanon and the Lebanese shouldn’t be allowed to try to force them back.

You want to explain the logic and reason. I I I I I I don’t know. But that that’s di this is what’s happening right now. I I don’t know when this podcast was filmed, making the rounds today. Donald Trump was with again, another, you know, sycophant reporter from the New York Post, Miranda Devine.

Trump said that he’s getting along quite well. I said this in the interview. Again, you don’t have to believe me. Okay, go watch it yourself. We seem to be getting along quite well with the Ayatollah. I would like to meet him. I will probably meet him at some point.

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We killed his father, we killed his wife, and we killed his kids.

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Anybody actually think that the Ayatollah and Donald Trump are gonna be sitting down and having lunch anytime soon? So and I did a podcast on this last week, The Land of Confusion. I

I I these this I’m just reporting what what’s going on.

Far as the markets are concerned, well, listen, folks, I I mentioned this before. You get a super spike in oil. This is not taken care of to to some degree. And I I understand, okay, and we’re

Aiding, we again we don’t not sanctioning Russian oil. Their oil’s getting out. And I’m sure a certain amount of ships are being allowed through. I know this blockade, but you see any sort of super spike to like I’m talking futures because right now physical oil is very, very expensive. again, damaging.

Already starting to see the global food indices, price of rice, price of various different foodstuffs from all over the globe have gone up significantly. So what is left to do?

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The you know the the I’m sorry, a lot of in my opinion, you might call you know, Donald Trump whoa intelligence people, you got a lot of people out there suggesting that, hey, let’s just bomb the hell, let’s just fire up, let’s just bomb the hell out of Iran, which means they’re gonna bomb the hell out of the entire region, which means we’re gonna have a major spike in in energy prices. Again, that not a very good scenario.

A real telling thing, and it one of the things, you know, I learned to over the years to kind of you know see and try to judge what’s going on is based upon what the media is saying and how they’re putting it out. And I found this one fascinating. This is the one insight that I I had this morning. I had a a saw a clip of on Fox and Friends this morning. Basically Brian Kilmead.

Yeah going off saying, Hey, listen, we gotta get gotta get Witkoff and Kushner out of these negotiations. You gotta send Ruby over there. He’s gotta handle this. Okay. He has to handle it. Okay. Again, you could see and hear in his voice that there’s concerns.

about what is taking place. And do your own homework on this, research it. You know, if you don’t trust what I have to say, but is it making me uncomfortable I’m telling you it’s making me uncomfortable. Should make you uncomfortable as well. Watchdog and wall street.com