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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobic. Christ is King.
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Bronze Supreme Leader the 86 year old Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead. He was the target of joint American Israeli airstrikes.
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Three US Service members have been killed, five others wounded as part of Operation Epic Fury. This coming amid growing turmoil in the Middle east as the US Israel and Iran trade fresh strikes after the killing of Iran's supreme leader. Iranians were seen celebrating in the street when the news got out Iran's military forces had already launched retaliatory strikes earlier in the day.
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My message to President Trump is that I'm here to echo and join millions of my compatriots inside and outside of Iran to thank him for having done and having the courage to do what is not easy. But intervene and he will go down in the annals of Iranian history as the most celebrated foreign leader that changed the ball game and changed the world.
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The United States and its partners have launched Operation Epic Fury, one of the largest, most complex, most overwhelming military offensives the world has ever seen.
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To the media outlets and political left screaming, endless wars. Stop. This is not Iraq. This is not endless.
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I was there for both.
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Our generation knows better. And so does this president. He called the last 20 years of nation building wars dumb. And he's right. This is the opposite. This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission. Destroy the missile threat, destroy the Navy, no nukes.
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What's amazing here is that the President has showed that for the first time, someone who comes in as a businessman, someone who didn't have a background in government, is able to achieve his objectives in the Middle east without boots on the ground. This isn't going to be a forever war. We're not seeing the gender studies programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We're not seeing the pallets of cash to the mullahs. We're seeing President Trump understanding what the situation is and figuring out how to deal with it smartly and swiftly and then hopefully getting home and getting to peace. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily. We're here live real America's voice. Today is March 2, 2026, Anno Domini. We're now several days into Operation Epic Fury. President Trump announcing on very early Saturday morning, Friday night, if you will, the strikes on Iran. Total decimation of the Iranian leadership, the clerical leadership, the civilian leadership remains largely intact as it seems at this point. IRGC and clerical leaders, however, being taken out in joint US Israeli strikes. We're also seeing now just over the past few days and hours, continued strikes on Iran's ballistic missile force, on Iran's navy, on Iran's ability to wage war, their command and control. We're seeing now also President Trump coming in and calling for mass protests, calling for people to rise up, calling for new leadership. The president making a number of statements around to media, also from the White House. He's back at the White House now after conducting this at Mar a Lago for the weekend, saying that he's willing to work with the new leadership of Iran when they do come to bear, when that comes into fruition. And having said and confirming our reporting from earlier in the day on Saturday that a four week campaign is what was expected. Four week bombing campaigns. We told you that on the last episode of Human Events Daily. President Trump then confirmed it on Sunday. However, today from the East Room of the White House at a Medal of Honor ceremony, President Trump came out and said that it is possible that they are ahead of schedule. They are meeting the objectives ahead of schedule. And as such, we may see Operation Epic Fury be conducted or wrap up even sooner than that. What I keep hearing is this, folks, the Venezuela model. Look at the Venezuela model. What did the United States do? The United States identified Maduro, conducted one raid, identified him as being the issue in that situation in Caracas, went in, exfiltrated him from the premises and returned home, was then able to work with the remaining new leadership in Venezuela. That is not a forever war. It's not. It's just not. It's not endless war. It's not a forever war. It's not boots on the ground. It's not George W. Bush, it's not Dick Cheney, it's not pallets of cash to the mullahs. It's not gender studies. No, it's none of those things. But unfortunately, what have we seen, we have seen here in the United States. Blowback already. Austin, Texas. A Muslim migrant from Africa taking upon himself to conduct a mass shooting. Will this be the first of many? Remains to be seen. But here's the thing. We live for so long in this country under the policy of invade the world, invite the world. This guy clearly does not view the United States of America as his nation. This is what we meant when we were talking about who is an American, what is an American that's not an American. He may have had American citizenship at one point he had an American green card. One point he had a visa that he overstayed. So he wasn't illegal at one point. But this guy is not an American. He was never an American. And that's what we're talking about when we're talking about these very serious questions about who has been letting into the country. They are bringing their ethnic feuds with them. They are bringing their blood feuds. They are bringing their foreign loyalties with them to the United States. And there are millions upon millions that have been brought in without the vetting. Not just illegally, but even cases like this legally as well. Jack Posoba, Cumin Events Daily. Back in the back in a flash.
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Good brother. Good to talk to you again.
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You as well. So Tom, given that, let's just, let's just go right there and start this, this information from, from Secretary Hegseth, the Secretary War himself, confirming that it was a tactical operations center there, likely in Kuwait. If you go, if you add in the NBC's reporting that was hit. Does it surprise you then that if they were able to get through the air defense on that base, hit a tactical operations center. Walk us through a little bit. Obviously unclassified what a tactical operations center does and why so many people would be there.
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Sure. A talk, a tactical operations center we usually call the talk is simply like a watch floor. It's kind of the, meant to be the nerve center for operations. So it's usually manned 24 7. You've got a watch officer on call there. This is when all the communication comes and goes. It's typically where a commander or one of their deputies is usually in the room there. And that's where they're getting everything from radar, communications. You know, we've got global command and control systems, you know, formerly known as geeks, as we call it gccs. I'm not sure if we still use that anymore. Anymore. I've been out of the game for a little bit, but I still call it geeks. That's what. Yeah, we call it geeks. Yeah. And. But that's where they had that. You had folks in there all the time and some people, that's their full time job. You know, I know a guy who is one of my good buddies, was an infantry officer in Iraq 2005, 2006. And unfortunately he wanted to like go out and do things, but he was stuck inside of a talk which is really just like, you know, a small building, sometimes underground, sometimes not, where all the computers and the screens are just like you see in the movies. That's a talk. So it looks like, you know, that hey, sometimes the bad guys get lucky, right. So.
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Well, and it would stand to reason then that it would stand to reason then that it looks like Iran was, was, was presumably targeting that specifically. So they were able to actually hit their target in this instance?
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Sure, yeah, they were. And they're able to figure that out. I mean, you know, say what you want about Iran, I mean, they still have some gain, right? Even though we all know that the, the leadership, the military leadership has been dead for about a day or so now. You know, it seems like a lot of these hardliners now, it's very decentralized and now you're seeing them lashing out everywhere, just trying to create chaos. So a lot of these, you know, IRGC units and various other conventional unconventional units, some of these guys are true believers, I guess, and they're just lashing out everywhere they can. This could have been a pre planned target. Probably wouldn't be too hard to figure out that where the tactical operations center is at any given base. So yeah, and they put it, they, they target it and sometimes they get lucky.
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Well, and, and, and honestly that's, that's what the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is chosen for. When those recruits are brought in, they're going through, they're checking your family history, they're checking your history for any signs of disloyalty to the regime, disloyalty to the revolution, to the, the Ayatollah is there. That's exactly the point of the, what people don't understand about Iran, and I feel like I have to keep going back to this, is that Iran has two militaries. It has the regular army, it has the regular navy, but then it has the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. And the whole point of that is very simple. Their job is to guard the revolution, which in effect means to guard the regime. That's why if people come up, rise up against the regime like protesters, it's the IRGC who takes them out Tiananmen Square style. Their job is not necessarily protect the country of Iran, although in many cases you, you know, you see the overlap there because they do also run the ballistic missile force of Iran. Their goal is also protection of the regime. And so they will do anything. And of course, when they're in their recruitment process, they're recording as you say, Tom, they're absolutely going to be recruiting for those hardest line, totally loyal, no question of loyalty to the regime, to the, to the fight when they go to, to bring those people in, that's how you get to be in or not. And so when I hear that the foreign minister saying that there's independently operating units now, this is not really something that you would see in the United States. We do not have a revolutionary state, you know, at least not since 1776 or 50 years ago. And so we don't operate with those types of, those types of plans. I suppose in, in the Civil War. The Confederacy actually used this a little bit with their light infantry. You could probably go there to point to any actual, like, American unit using something like this, but that's. That's a totally different kind of tactic. And, Tom, would you agree with the assessment that these attacks on the. The Gulf states, does this constitute asymmetric warfare?
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Yeah, I think it could constitute asymmetric warfare. But also, one thing to go back is when you mentioned the IRGC is, you know, it's not a perfect analogy, but it's very similar to, like, the Waffen ss. It's a paramilitary. It is meant for more political and, like you said, to control the regime, for example, though, as well. Like, before I was an EOD officer, I served on ships, and we would interact often with the Iranian Navy and the Iranian Air Force. And they were actually, generally speaking, a polite, quiet, professional. They acted normally. But sometimes we also had to act with. We had to interact with the irgcn, which is the Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy. And that was a bunch of crazy people screaming and swearing at us over the radio and pointing RPGs at me. So it's a little bit different.
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The. The small boats, when we had our small boats, the sweet boats that were taken in 2016, and people remember those images, those just horrifying images that came out at. I think it was. I think it was Kesham Island. And you know that that was the irgcn.
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That's right. And I actually knew the officer who was in charge. We weren't friends, though, of that. Of that boat. That was a very embarrassing.
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I knew, I knew. So there's a lot. A small community, put it that way.
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Very small community. You're absolutely right.
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That was the famous. The guys with the white socks, remember?
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Yeah, yeah, I know it was ridiculous. But to get back to your question about asymmetric warfare. Yeah, I definitely think it is, because they're really just trying to incite chaos, just get everyone pissed off, make everyone afraid. I mean, for instance, this. This morning, you saw this when the Kuwaitis accidentally, foolishly shot down three of our own F15s, which is really unfortunate. Looks like at least one guy got hurt pretty bad. Looks like he lost a finger or two, but, you know. But fortunately, they're all alive and safe. But you can see people are paranoid because right away, when civilians found the downed pilots with their parachute and everything, they were coming at them. They thought that they were Iranian. They didn't know what was going on. And so they just were really there just to create chaos. And so I think right now, just with the Iranian, the IRGC just lashing out at everyone as they can is, I think that's the goal right now, to create as much chaos as possible. Fortunately, it's not that effective. I mean, yes, you know, there, there are some people getting hurt and killed, which is terrible, but it's not to the. Anywhere near the kind of scale.
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But in terms of effectiveness of vending operations, it's not. It's not anywhere near what they need. We're coming up on a quick break. Tom, I do want to get back into that with you some more. These reports of three F15 fighters downed over Kuwait, same spot where we're told four Americans were killed in a tactical operations center. Right back. Jack Posoba, Human Events Daily.
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Influencers. These are influencers and they're friends of mine. Jack, Where's Jack?
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All right, Jack back live here. Human Events Daily. Real America's Voice, Operation Epic Fury. I want to dig into this some more. So we're on with Tom Sauer, United States Navy EOD veteran. And Tom, when we saw this report this morning, not one, not two, but three US F15s shot down and what we're told is a friendly fire incident over Kuwait. You've served in the region. What's your sense of what happened here? Thank God, by the way, all the crews were safe. But what's your sense of what happened?
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Yeah, no, thank God, all the crews are safe. Like I said earlier, I think it looked like one of the pilots lost a finger or two, which is pretty rough. So his flying days might be over, which is unfortunate. Look, I've interacted with a lot of partners in different militaries throughout the world. Some of the. Some of the very best people in the military I've ever, ever worked with were some of the foreign partners. I mean, that I did not have that experience dealing with partners in the Middle east to say that much. So, you know, if the Kuwaitis couldn't figure out, you know, don't shoot down that plane, maybe they're a little trigger happy, there might be some competency issues there. You know, that wouldn't surprise me too much. I wouldn't be surprised at all if somebody's getting a very stern talking to from the United States, United States side, to the Kuwaiti side. So that was something especially three times. We don't know. I mean, the breakdown of it, how it went down, but pretty unacceptable. And that's, you know, part of the reason why we do exercises with other nations is to prevent that sort of thing from happening. And typically, last I checked, we don't do a ton of air exercises, at least with the Kuwaiti Air Force, when obviously that's part of the reason we probably should. So, yeah, I was pretty disappointed by that from the Kuwaitis, from, you know, our partners, and just a massive unforced error on our part. And when I say our part, the Kuwaitis, as in the. These, you know, these allies here, not the United States right now.
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I mean. Exactly. And that's the thing, right? You know, we're using these forward operating bases in, in areas that, yeah, there are partner forces, but they're. They're not American forces. That's kind of the whole idea. There's a difference between, you know, I don't mean some biased here, but there's going to be a difference between that and operating off the flight deck of a United States Aircraft carrier, right? It just. There's just going to be a huge difference. It's a world of difference. Because now and for folks to understand how this works on the technical side without getting into too many of the acronyms, Tom, by the way, when Tanya Tay was. Was listening back to our episode, she goes, she goes, can you understand all those acronyms? Tom was saying? Because I was, I was a little lost as I. Look, it's just like this, folks. Different, different systems don't always talk to each other. It's really as simple as that. It's like someone's running Windows and someone's running. Someone's running Macintosh or Apple or someone's using, you know, when, like when somebody texts you from Samsung, you get that green bubble that pops up in your imessage and you're just. You just hate life. So that's, that's kind of what it's like in some of these cases, as opposed to when it's entirely US Infused, then you get all US Interoperability. This is why. This is one of the big things that Naito does, by the way. Naito tries to push, and obviously there's a financial incentive too, to be clear. But Naito tries to push everyone using the same equipment. So you don't run into these types of issues because everyone's basically playing off the same sheet of music. That's really where it comes into Tom, you know, speaking though of. Of capacity, speaking in terms of production. That's a huge piece of this that's going to come up because people have talked about this question. We've seen in the Wall Street Journal, we've seen General Raising Cain has talked about it. As well, this idea of stockpiles, this idea of reindustrialization and how it's all uniquely combined. Because look, this ballistic missile defense that, that the US Is providing and our allies are providing, it don't come cheap, do it?
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No, not at all. It's one of the things people don't realize is that, look, if we got into a, and this is not some big secret or anything, if we got into a shooting war with China, let's say over Taiwan or something like that, we're not saying we start one, but let's say it just happens, right? We get into a full, you know, naval and air engagement, like we're in hostilities with the Chinese in the South China Sea. Let's say we're going to run out ammo in about a week, right? And we simply just don't have the capacity or the production capacity for. Another great example is, you know, we were supplying so many of our own artillery shells to the Ukrainians, depleting our own stockpiles. We had, we went and raided and pilfered our NATO stockpiles in, in Europe and sent them to Ukraine. And also our own production capability with, you know, 155 millimeter artillery shells, which is like the standard, you know, you know, it's one of the standard rounds for so much artillery that's used all the time. And I know that everyone says things are high tech these days, but look, take a look at Ukraine. That's a 21st century ground war. And the next ground war is going to look pretty similar to that. Yeah, there's a lot of drones involved, there's a ton of electronic warfare involved, but at the end of the day, you still need a lot of explosives, right? And you know, fortunately there's a lot of companies out there. That's one thing I'm really happy to see from a lot of, like that from much of the tech world, they're really stepping up. This is companies like Anduril Palmer, Lucky's outfit, Chris Power's outfit, Hadrian, and I look at like Dhruva's outfit, Deterrence, they're making explosives. Like these are some of the great, like some really great companies out there that see this, what this is, and they're stepping up for it. And we just need to make sure that Congress, you know, budgets enough for that in the next ndaa, because now we got a one and a half trillion dollar defense budget, right? And so there are some really good folks in Congress and you know, especially in Congress that do understand this. Rob Whitman, in particular, he's doing a great job at that sort of thing. And so once we get that industrial base, because look, we have to make our own stuff, we can't depend on exports. We have to have massive industrial base. Absolutely. Being completely re industrialized as a country and done so in a high tech way. But we still got to do it and it's got to happen really, really soon. That's how we won World War II, guys. It's not necessarily because we were smarter than anyone else or we had better engineering, we had better scale, we had better industry. You know, you look at, you talk to anyone.
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Well, and our factories weren't getting blown up on the regular too.
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That's also true. That probably helps. But I mean, to give you an idea though, big part of that. No big part of it. But I mean, look, one thing everyone knows is that, and they interviewed folks From World War II, great example of that. The Germans had better tanks than we did. Much better tanks. Right. The Leopards. The Panthers. And the Panthers. And thing is, is we had the Shermans, but guess what, we made five times as many of them and they just simply couldn't compete. But they were a higher quality.
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And Tom, to your, to your point that not only were we supplying those from the allies that through Lend Lease, we were supplying those to the Soviets, we were supplying those to the British. I mean, you go and look at some of the tanks, some of the trucks that were involved in the battle of Stalingrad. A lot of that stuff that was on the ground, a lot of that armor was American. Those jeeps, those motorcycles, in some cases those planes, that was American. There's a whole history there that from the production side that really gets lost in the sauce that I think even their boots. As we get back into this era of war, we're relearning right back Jack Posobic Thomas, our Human events Daily.
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Jack.
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Where's Jack? Where is he? Jack, I want to see you. Great job, Jack.
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Thank you.
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What a job you do. You know, we have an incredible thing. We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys and these are the guys who are beginning politicians.
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Love you, Trump. You can, you can't imagine how we are appreciate our country, our people. I really appreciate. We love you. Thank you, Mr. President. Trump. God bless you. God bless America. Thank you, Mr. Mr. President. Dear Mr. President.
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TRUMP killed Khamenei. I'm so happy. Thanks Trump. Thanks, Trump. You are the best man in the world. I love you, Trump.
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I want to Have a big thanks to President Trump for keeping his promise and freeing people of Iran. That has nothing to do with this
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Jack, back live. And I want to. Want to go through and kind of break down what you were just seeing. So in English there, you saw a lot of the Iranian diaspora coming out, thanking President Trump, cheering him on, saying that they're for the strikes. But then what you heard in Persian or Farsi was chanting, death to America. Death to America, and mourning the ayatollah. So, you know, you see, you do see these mass demonstrations going on in Tehran, but in many cases, they're actually out there in full force in support of the regime, backing the regime, seeing this galvanization. This is what I was talking about the other day. So you're seeing, all right, you're seeing people in Iran who are opposed to the regime being galvanized. You're also seeing people who support the regime also being galvanized. Iran is a mixed bag in terms of a country. There's not one specific group that stands in opposition to the regime. There's multiple opposition groups. There's the mek, there's iri, there's Reza Pavloni, who is the. The. The would be the biological successor of the Shah. There's many examples here to look to, and nobody really able to consolidate leadership to be able to take over Iran or step up and take the reins. Meanwhile, of course, you still have the issue of the regime physically still being in place. So that includes the civilian leadership, the civilian president, the foreign minister, and other elected officials. You also have the irgc, as well as the regular military. And, of course, whatever the mullahs are expected to do. Of course, I'm sure at almost 90 years of age, Ali Khamenei, there is likely a succession plan already in place. His son was. Has been reported to have been the power behind the scenes to begin with. And it is possible that he could be named as the next ayatollah or another ayatollah could be named as Khamenei himself was when Ayatollah Khomeini died in, back in the 1980s. Want to bring Tom Sauer on here, because, Tom, this is something just. Just as we kind of wrap up with you the last couple of minutes, you know, I want people to understand that even though. Even though the initial strikes here were very successful, even though the initial objectives were very successful, this idea that, you know, we're going to see this huge catalyst effect take place, you know, it might happen, but it Might be, it might be days away, it might be weeks away or, you know, it might just not happen because again, the military and the state police are very, very powerful within Iran as well as having this core of support.
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Yeah, I think you're gonna see, look, this is gonna be a mixed bag. There is some risk here. One of the things that we remember our mutual friend Scott Adams used to say a lot of times when, sometimes when things are really bad, you just have to shake the box. Do you remember that we talk about to shake the box and see if something new happens. Right. I mean, this is what we're doing here. Are there risks involved? Yes, absolutely. Could somebody horse show up? It's a gamble, but keep in mind, let's say even a bigger hardliner shows up, let's just say. Or maybe, I mean, look, there's even like some of the Kurds are outright communists even. Right? Those exist. But let's say we get somebody who's really bad. First off, they're going to have a completely crippled military. No military at all. Right. Very little command and control. And if, you know, if they turn out to be pretty bad, we'll just end up killing them too. Now, I'm not saying that that's the right move or not, but that's probably what we're thinking and it's probably better than the status quo. So I kind of feel that like with all these different factions out there, one thing that's pretty universal is the current regime. The people are not happy with them. Now that's not why we're striking Iran just because that's an unpopular regime. We're doing it because it's a major, major threat to the region. We don't want them producing a nuclear weapon like they continue to do. And obviously we've got some partners and allies in the region, not just Israel. Guys, that's also worth, worth pointing out. I think that's part of the reason why the Saudis decided to chill out about Israel and everything like that was because they get the chance to cheer on or even participate in bombing the Shias because they all hate each other. So I mean, that might be part of it too. But the thing is just to keep mind is we are simply shaking the box here. And even if somebody who is not to our liking shows up, there's not a whole lot that they can do.
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That's exactly right. And we've seen and we've got, we've got a charter here that we can show map break of you know, the different attacks that We've seen. So I've got the map break going. So yellow is Iran's counterattacks. The red is our US And Israeli strikes. And you're seeing this, you're seeing this around. I should also mention, by the way, that Saudi Aramco, one of Saudi Arabia's largest oil refineries, was struck. And so that is a huge, huge blow. And people, if you want to go back all the way even to the wars of the 1980s, all right, this is the entire Middle east could almost be boiled down into, you know, people hate when I say this, but it's just true. Saudi Arabia versus Iran, right? The Sunnis and the Shia. This is what it's all about. One side supporting their version of Islam and their, their power axis and then one side supporting the other. There's always been more Sunnis. That's who the US Tends to work with. Of course, however, the Sunnis also include elements like Al Qaeda and ISIS who have risen up and also become problems for everyone. So this has been one of the biggest hot button issues of the Middle East. Middle east, the hot box issues. And, and so there's not going to be any tears shed for the, the, the Shia. There's not going to be any tear shed for the Ayatollah among the Sunnis. But I just want to point out again to everybody that you, that the, the lay. My last. The Shia adherents have just been given a major martyr. They are going to give the Ayatollah a major martyrs funeral. He is going to be given a state funeral. He was going to be considered a martyr for Allah, a martyr for his country, a martyr for his people. And that will galvanize support of which there is no question. So understand that whoever steps up is going to be stepping into those shoes and is likely going to be trying to use that to continue the regime's efforts and continue the survivability of that regime. And Tom, that's, that's one of the reasons that, you know, we look at Iraq and Afghanistan. That was one of the things that we started coming up against again and again.
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Yeah, that's right. I would say that, you know, for those who might not be as familiar with Middle Eastern history and politics and all that, it's okay, you don't need to be for the average people person home. But with the Shia versus Sunni conflict, it's roughly, roughly analogous to Protestants and Catholics, you know, in many ways. And a lot of the Arab world has a popular majority of Shia, but they are dominated by a Sunni elite minority. So that's. We did used to see that in Iraq. Right, because you had Saddam Hussein, who was a, you know, fairly secular Sunni Muslim, but it was still the Sunni majority that ran the show. But then the largest and most powerful and influential Shia country out there has always been Iran. So that's what a lot of this comes down to. And also it's worth pointing out that I never fully understood this and this is something that's like a question maybe, you know, the answer to this, Jack, is that it always seemed like a lot of the folks on the right, this includes the Trump administration, the previous Bush administration, they were always a little bit more favorable and siding with the Saudis to be the regional hegemon. And regional hegemon meaning the big dog in the neighborhood. Right. And then it's usually for years. Yeah, they have been. And they're usually then on the, on the left, especially the Obama folks, they really favored the Iranians. I would imagine it's mostly because Iran is actually very leftist in a lot of its thinking. It's very much a, you know, it's almost like a theocratic form of communism in certain ways. That's my only guess. But that's something that I always think about as well, that we've always, it's always been that side. And now, especially though with the Abraham Accords, where now that we're seeing actual partnership or at least maybe a modus vivendi between Saudi Arabia and the Israelis, everyone's starting to act like adults and grownups now. I think that's very, very encouraging. And that's why we see, you know, President Trump, you know, making the Saudis really kind of the regional head hegemon in the Middle East.
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Well, and that's, that's clearly what the Saudi Arabia goal is here and they're looking to do that. I mean, you've seen, you've seen the integration Saudi, Bahrain, Qatar in with the global energy markets in a way that Iran just hasn't. Iran's been much more tied into the China, Russia, BRICS axis of things for a long time, has definitely stood against that. But of course, Iran also having many dealings with Europe as well. So it, it always does get, it always does get a little complicated when oil is involved, as we know. Tom, Sarah, where can people follow you, brother?
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Yeah, you can find me at Thomas b. Sauer on x.com all right, go
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give him a follow, folks. Go give him some grief. He deserves it. Thomas B. Sour over@x.com I'll be here be doing some e emails 1776 human events.com 1776 human events.com Please indicate your age if you want to just to give us a better understanding of what's going on out there. Jack Soic right back. Human Events. It's the Jack Posobic Appreciation Hour. I can say confidently, I believe, I
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think Josh Shapiro would be the, the
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vice presidential nominee if it wasn't for Jack Posobic.
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And that is, I think.
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All right, folks, Jack Posobic, we're back live here. Human Events final segment for the day. And folks, what can I say? I want to appreciate the real Markers voice team for getting us up. On this Saturday we did a special edition of Human Events. I don't know if we've ever done a special live edition on a Saturday like that before. Maybe the first time in our history that we've done that. And look, you know, I've been burning the candle as well as running around with the kids. Was up late. But doing media until last midnight last night, then back at it early this morning, monitoring the situation. For everyone, monitoring the situation out there, there's no better way to continue monitoring that situation than with blackout coffee. How do you, how does it work? You go to blackout coffee.com poso and you're going to use promo code poso for 20% off your first order. They've got delicious roasts. I get in there, I love my brutal awakening. I love my morning reaper. 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So if you want to do that, make sure you're supporting American jobs, go to blackout coffee.com posto Again, that's blackout coffee dot com, the official coffee of monitoring the situation. I want to get in here to some of these Some of these emails and these we put this out, you guys are flying in. I want to get them out there for you as well. Here we go. We've got Judy in Ohio, voted for Trump in every primary since 2015. Totally opposed his military action against Iran. The email again is 1776@human events.com. this is from Thomas, age 38. We voted for mass deportations and no new wars. We're getting new wars and aren't getting mass deportations. The administration's constant focus on foreign policy over domestic issues is one of the most disheartening things I've experienced in following politics. Wow. This one from Jeanette. My thoughts are clear as I watch the greatest president of my 70 years perform. Not just for the interests of the Iranian people, but for the future safety of our nation. God bless President Trump and all of our fierce warriors. This one's from Jake. He is 35. He says, here's my thoughts on the war. It's not our business. Israel has fed US intelligence on their neighbors ambitions for decades. A single American life lost for another country is not good. And for the people arguing, but our military bases are close. We what if we left the Middle East? Defend the homeland because not a single country would ever attack the American homeland is a truth every single service member know knows. Every single warhawk politician and every American with a brain get out of the Middle East. This is from. Oh, wow. This is long. This one, rob, he's age 66. Is Operation EPIC Fury a good idea? How would any person not in the upper echelons of the military, State Department or White House know will only know if it's successful or not by waiting to see how the long term pans out. This from, this is from Bridget. She is. Oh, okay. She is 73. She has three grandchildren. She says, we want to win, but very concerned if under 30s will bleed support over anything not involving affordability. This one's from Cody. He says, I trust my president. That's my stance. This one's from Wesley. Striking Iran is less about preventing the regime from obtaining nukes or any of the reasons. We hear from the talking heads on TV about the reshaping of the global world order, establishing and carrying out grand strategy. We need to talk more about grand strategy. And you know, certainly he's talking about whether or not we're going to have the strategy vis a vis China vis a vis Russia. We certainly have talked about the impacts here that this would have on China's oil supply and their ability to source oil from Iran and the Middle east writ large. Hi. Saw your tweet. I usually scroll past these, but I wanted to let my thoughts known. I'm 34 years old. This is from Amanda. My husband, who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, is a Marine. He served as a Marine police officer with a canine partner. He suffered with PTSD severely from watching some of his friends and his dog die. His PTSD led him to developing a drinking problem. After years of being ignored by the va, he's now been sober for one year after finding Jesus Christ as his savior. God bless. I know how blessed I am that he did not become a statistic. I know how blessed I am that my husband fought the wars that many veterans fall victims to. I cannot express how deeply I oppose this war. I'm a three time Trump voter and one of my biggest issues was no new wars and not getting involved in other people's conflict. I oppose greatly having our men and women fight and die for another country when we as a country have our own issues. I'm beyond disgusted and disappointed in the way this, this is going and at this point I regret my vote for Trump and I know I'm not the only one. Well, God bless you Amanda, and we hear you and God bless your husband and he ever wants to reach out about sobriety, please just send us a follow up email and I'm more than happy to get in touch. I've got 20 years sobriety myself. Jennifer emails in 56. I'm just really, really hoping for a fast and decisive outcome with minimal American lives lost. This one from Beth and 62. I think many have either forgotten or uneducated about our history with the Middle east over the last century. This one is from John. He's 41 and was a freshman in college when the planes hit the Twin Towers. I lost my first cousin of the same age to a roadside bomb in Taji, Iraq because of this I am anti forever war and I don't want our men and women to go harm's way without it being absolutely necessary. Not sure if Bush was complicit or a useful idiot, but I know the rest of the admin was in on in on these wars with no thought to the people they sent to their deaths and dismemberant. He said I says something that he does not like about Dick. He's not a fan of Dick Cheney, put it that way. I was a long time, I was long a supporter but because I didn't want my cousin's death to be in vain. But when I saw what Iraq and Afghanistan had become. It breaks my heart and hurts me more and more that my cousin lost his life for nothing. Having said all that, this is the first time I've ever felt my cousin's death being avenged. I'm supportive of ripping those sobs from this earth limb from limb until the job is done. They are eradicating evil. I don't want a ground invasion. Keep it on the air and special forces. The lives saved by this mission will be in the thousands. We only hope this mission also makes a struggling G what vet think twice about their worth. Hopefully they see positive that it was worth it. Hey Poso, it says please do not share my name. I do not have a name here. Well, I'm not gonna read the email. 28 year old male from the Midwest. Don't get me wrong, I'm always excited to see American military flex their muscles and there is no love lost for the Iranian regime. But I know I haven't yet heard a coherent reason for why are we doing. What are we doing over there? We bombed them last year to destroy nuclear enrichment and now we are bombing them to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon. We go in and kill all their leadership so that the same organization can retake power. Where is the imminent threat to the United States? Why are we concentrating our forces and firepower halfway across the globe? It seems like we're doing other people's dirty work and the taxpayers are footing the bill. Hope you're having a prayerful Lent. Christ is king. Christ is king. Amen. Yes, I am having a prayerful Lent and I have still not gone to Wawa since Ash Wednesday or the day before Fat Tuesday, I suppose. Laura writes in saying Trump needs to take the off ramp and end this Iran war. No more dead Americans. Stop spending money. Bring home all our equipment from our bases that have been hit. Leave those bases to the Gulf countries they are located in and let the Gulf coalition run the Middle East. Well, they certainly have enough money to be able to do so, that's for sure. Let's see, let's see. You guys send in so many emails. It's just, it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable the amount of emails that have come in. This one from Michael, cautiously optimistic. From the online presence, there seems to be support for regime change in Iran. If they can break the IRGC eventually, even four layers down, they're going to run out of leadership. If that helps happens. Hopefully the Iranian people will get their country back. If not, it's four jets and five or six service members that don't come at this point, hundreds of millions of dollars in operational costs that go nowhere. Matt from Ohio 38, not a supporter of further involvement in Iran, but I would like to see this kind of military action on the cartels on our southern border. Amen to that. Praying. Could be wrapped up in a week so we can get back to domestic issues and deportations. No more Lindsey Graham Foreign policy. Please. Folks, I want to say thank you. I want to say thank you so much to all of your information. And I want to let you know that Donald J. Trump, he's not George Bush. J.D. vance is not Dick Cheney. This is a new day, a new administration, and hopefully a new future for the United States of America. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay short.