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Hey, what's going on guys? Welcome back to the Mike Force podcast. It's good to be back. Happy Tuesday to you. Look, if you are interested in the uncensored version of this, because I do talk about things on my Patreon that I can't talk about here. It's linked down in the description and it's absolutely free. Make sure you join my Patreon and if you want to level up, you can join Tier 1, Tier 2 or Tier 3. Also, Big Shout out to my main sponsor, Carnival freeze dried beef, chicken and pork. You could lock in a subscription. That locks in your beef prices, for example. That went up 49%. And with all the things that I'm talking about today on the podcast, you might want to rethink how you prepare for everything. So Iran insane, okay. We are doing now the US Navy has just been guided and directed by Central Command and the President of the United States to create a blockade of the blockade. The Iranians are blocking the Strait of Hormuz and now we're flexing in the region saying if you block anything, we're going to destroy you. Literally from true social saying we will sink you to the bottom of the ocean if you decide to come near our ships at all. Right now the US Blockade began yesterday. It's into its second day, which is massively affecting and impacting the global economy. Now there's this idea that Trump is doing everything deliberately and he's playing what's called 5D chess. I don't know what that is, but I could comprehend the gist of it. If he's conducting 5D chess. If this is all part of a multifaceted end objective or plan, then there are indications that this might be working. Let me give you a couple examples. One, right now fuel across Europe has increased in the European Union, for example, 60, 70%. In fact, the Chancellor of Germany just issued relief for the citizens of Germany by decreasing the prices and them eating the cost, which is reciprocal. They're always going to impact and affect each other, but they're offering relief because a lot of the gas that flows through the Strait of Hormuz, a lot of is affecting countries besides our own. Yet they don't want anything to do either. In a NATO alliance, a EU alliance with blockading, for example, Iranian naval forces, creating a requirement of one, you not being Israel or America because they say they don't support terrorists, but two, paying a fee in order to get through the strait. And so what that looks like, for example, US Central Command forces will begin implementing a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports. That was yesterday at 10am in accordance with the President's proclamation. This is doing a lot of things to the cost of oil. For example, where this time last year oil was $67 a barrel, as of today, I think it's 104.81, $105 a barrel. An increase of a crude jump of nearly 56% in 44 days alone. 44 days alone. That's a huge jump. Iran, ironically, in the negotiations that failed over the weekend because J.D. vance reported on this because he was there. Iran ironically calls us pirates where he says this is piracy. In fact, they literally state security of ports in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman is either for everyone or for no one. And the imposition of restrictions on the movement of vessels in international waters is an illegal act and amounts to piracy. The pirates calling the patriots pirates is comical at best. So another element to this with Trump playing 5D chess is there's a lot of desperation and leverage in negotiation, including for NATO. Now, what has NATO done for us? There's a lot of history of this and we'll get into this, this podcast, but absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing. What are we paying into it? A lot of money. So the question is, why are we doing that and is that in the best interest of America? First it absolutely is, in my opinion. But a lot of people, including myself, don't want us to get involved with another endless war. And indications that it's endless is no significant, at least advertisement of what our end objective is. The justification for getting involved seem a little merked up and Israeli influence, which I'll get into because there's a whole MAGA component to this that I want to talk about. And the reality is, literally, financially, Hexev just asked for another $200 billion on top of the $1.5 trillion funding request from the Department of War. That's a lot of money at the Same time Americans are hurting at the pump, not able to buy a house cause the interest rates are so high. Oh and by the way, the Fed just released that they're not likely going to drop any of the interest rates this year because of the war in Iran. So the housing market is tanked, the global economy is looking at the dollar as insignificant and trading on other bets. And this is not working well for us. We have eight days left in day 45 of the Iran war. Eight days left until the ceasefire agreement ceases to exist. And what are we going to do about it? I don't know. One thing I could predict, which I, I did predict boots on the ground from American forces within 10 days of this. This idea that we were probably going to take the straight of hermose. And although we didn't get boots on the ground for that reason, there were boots on the ground. According to the press, over 100 operators that were there to rescue the downed pilots. And yes, it was a success. But again, these little micro victories pale in comparison to the problems I think we're going to have in the potential endless war with Iran. Here's One problem identified. One, there's 90 plus million, 93 million people in Iran, 5 million of which happen to be Christian. They are surrounded by mountains. You would need ground forces in the capital city in order to get a lot of these things accomplished. Because you can't bomb them into submission. They will not submit. If you attempt to bomb them in submission, you will kill a lot of innocent civilians. We don't want that. I don't think anybody wants that. We've already dropped the bomb, obviously inadvertently on a geolocation that apparently was AI vectored that killed over a hundred school children and their parents. Bad look, we look at it statistics and it's like do we want to get in that business again? And I say again because millions of people died, for example, in the Iraq war of which I have five combat rotations to Iraq. Iraq. I don't want my son to be going to war with Ranger regiment. That I don't agree with when there are so many different conflicts throughout the entire globe that we should be managing now. Do I think the Iranians needed to be put in their place? An example is Ayatollah. My opinion of the Ayatollah especially as advertised because I understand this on my main channel. Mike Glover channel I did a reacts to this. The Ayatollah apparently managed. He doesn't manage anymore because he's dead. Manages control of the irgc. If that's true. He's the commander of the armed forces, which means he's a fair and game target, especially if we're trying to disable their military. On the flip side of that coin, with my agreeance that he's a fair target, he's also the Shia religious leader, the most impactful leader in the region. And killing him is likely going to fuel in the hearts and minds of young men, or men in general in that region that are Shia, to conduct acts of terrorism against the infidel and Western countries, including ours, for the rest of history, or at least their existence and then history. So you kill one terrorist, you kill collaterally a whole bunch of innocent civilians. This is not going to end well, is the point. This does not end well. There is not a happy ending to this. So if the ceasefire doesn't hold, we're going to have economic, global issues that are bound to bounce back, snap back like a rubber band. I talked about this in the last episode. I won't go into too much detail here, but we are already seeing the ramifications of that, right? Because all of this petroleum fuel supplies, manufacturing processes to include plastics, aluminum, the biggest factory of aluminum was struck by the Iranians and they're going after civilian infrastructure. In fact, they're actually doing cyber attacks. Iranians, the Persians are not cave dwellers, they're not Afghans. Entire flip flops, like legitimately, that's a thing. Entire flip flops hiding in caves. These guys are advanced. The majority of the Iranian people are good people. They just have a radical regime that's likely not going to get changed out for something better. I, I'm under the opinion that if we do swap it out with another regime, it might be even worse. Right? That's the guarantee that we hope. That's never guaranteed. We, we do this throughout history hoping for our desired implemented democracy and change and we never get it. That's the point on this MAGA front, okay? You've been seeing it go back and forth. Multiple things can be true at the same time. So I'm going to frame it that way. Also, I'm going to tell you in framing this, I am not a MAGA guy. I one, I don't buy into any political ideology that forces me to wear hats and do certain things. Like I, I have one ambassador that I subscribe to and it's God, I do not subscribe to the ideology on the fringes that are movements. The Tea Party, the whatever, name it what you want. Not that I don't think we need to make America, great again, because I think that's a given standard operating procedure of every politician, at least in briefing. It never executes well. But I did buy into the idea under this administration that they were going to focus on American priorities, which they establish as one of the variables is peace over war. Because the politicians on the, under the Biden administration were warmongers. I mean, they were amplified by the Ukraine conflict by pumping tons of money into that, killing millions of men, which is still going on today. Which is crazy, because the Democrats never used to be that way. They were never for war. They were the ones protesting the Vietnam War. And now on flipping the script, they're ones, they're the ones who are antagonizing war. Right. So if we look at the MAGA movement overall, I thought it was the best option. For sure. For sure. It's the best, the better option. But when I see influencers like Sean Ryan, who I consider a friend, a former teammate in the agency, former service member, veteran, who's helped me out profoundly in many instances that I've never even communicated, I was his first episode on the Sean Ryan Show. Tucker Carlson, I've been on his show, like, flew to his location in Florida, was on his show. Respect the man for everything he's been through, for putting America first. Megyn Kelly, which I haven't interacted with, but I, I respect her. I like her. And Alex Jones, which I don't know a lot about, but he's quoted me on different shows, especially my analysis of the Charlie Kirk situation. And I, I like him now. He, he's made mistakes. The Sandy Hook thing was a disaster, but he's owned those mistakes. But he's also been right on a lot of things, including nine, 11, by the way. Okay, so you take those four people. I won't include Candace Jones, don't know a lot about her, don't really follow her. Not that I don't like her. I just don't subscribe to the extreme fringes of it, which I would say, which is crazy, because I wouldn't consider Alex Jones now on the fringe because a lot of things he's saying is right. But anyway, she's not in the pool of people I consider because I really don't know her. But if you take those four examples, all of them have basically said that they don't like foreign peddling or influence making the administration and American politics and politicians about a foreign country's interest, because that's not America First. That's all they've said. In fact, Tucker, after The Mike Huckabee interview was very careful to articulate. He supported the administration. He supports Donald Trump, likes Donald Trump, but doesn't support this policy, this foreign policy, and this position because it's not been very clearly, at least communicated why we got involved in the war. Mark Marco Rubio said, look, we're literally getting into this because the Israelis came to us, they said, we're going to do a strike. They were going to retaliate in some way. We had bases all over the Gulf states, and that would be very bad because we take casualties. We need to preempt this. We need to be proactive. And we decided to join the campaign. Okay, whatever. I get it, I get it. But what are we doing right now? Is there an off ramp? What are the Israelis doing? After we announced a peace treaty and an agreement with Iran, The Israelis lobbed 100 rockets or 100 missiles into Lebanon, killing 400 people. All right? A lot of them innocent people. And now they're in. They're doing talks today in negotiation for peace, which they haven't done since 1983, by the way. Remember the, The Beirut bombing that actually killed members of the military, A lot of members of the military, hundreds of people overall, and also members of Special Operations Command, even members of Delta were killed in that. Which isn't widely advertised, but is there available and open source. My overall point is they weren't hard in the paint on Trump. They were hard in the paint on the very distinct position that this Iran war was good for Americans when we knew it wasn't because the President didn't agree with him. He wrote, like a multiple page, a lot of words. It could have been like a mini novel about those people directly quoting them or communicating with them, tagging them and saying how much he disliked him, which I find funny. I mean, he just came out yesterday and said he didn't like Mrs. Riley, the one who fought for women's rights. And I, I can't use certain words because I don't want to get banned on YouTube. Coming back to yesterday, which was very controversial for the President, the administration, and they're waking up, we're waking up to some of that controversy today because he has since deleted the post, what people recognized as blasphemy of him posting an AI generated image of him appearing to look like Christ or God, like image, you know, healing somebody with all this weird stuff. Trump himself said today, I believe this morning that it was a joke. And what he meant to do is portray himself as like a doctor. He's look, he's old, and maybe that's the case. But a lot of people, including myself, looked at it, went, oh, that's, that's not really tasteful. And, and I don't like it. Now, I'm not one of the influencers and talking heads that's going to come up here and throw my fist down because it's not my position to judge. I could say I didn't like it, and that's true. I could also say I still like Trump, because I do. I think Trump is doing a lot of good things. Now, there's things that I don't like. Like, for example, the head of veteran affairs I don't think is doing a good job. We're not doing enough for our veterans. The court systems, the legal system is completely broken and fractured. I mean, I, I was involved in a case that's now closed involving family court. And it is the worst thing I've ever seen. The biggest corruption, which I'm about to blow the lid on, by the way. Stay tuned for that. But there's issues that Americans deal with every single day that aren't being addressed. Because the idea was we were going to tackle fraud, waste and abuse, reallocate those funds, pay off debts and focus on America First. And we're asking for $200 billion to drop more bombs on Iran. I don't, I don't see how that correlates. Now, the administration, people in general, you even could disagree with me, but teach their own. We have our opinions. I'm a talking head who's talking about this situation. The difference is I'm not the President of the United States. Blowing people up on true social, calling them traitors. I think if you take a step back, Trump has a very specific style of operating. That doesn't mean I don't support the administration. Cause I do it. I never supported, like, the MAGA movement because I wasn't on the MAGA bandwagon. I wouldn't be on any political bandwagon. But I think there are still a lot of things that the administration are doing in a positive way. I also think that Sean Ryan, Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson, the things they're saying, because I've listened to them intently, a lot of the things they're saying are true. Some of the things I don't agree with, like Tucker is going down these rabbit holes. He seems consumed in it, but that's his job. At least he's speaking the truth. His truth. If you don't like it, you just don't tune into it. I tune into a lot of it because a lot of his perspective, especially that interview with Mike Huckabee, you want to be woken to the circumstance that we're dealing with politically, with foreign interest. Look at Mike Huckabee, because for sure, I can't believe he hasn't converted already. He's completely sold himself to the Israelis. You don't have to take my word for it. Just watch the interview and make your own mind up about it. But there's a whole bunch of fallout. That fallout is political shenanigans where the right is eating itself. The unfortunate thing with that, and I'll make the prediction now, is you're going to see a surge of Democrats win the midterms. Now we talk about this pendulum swinging the other direction. What it looks like, you don't want to know what that looks like. I, I'm going to line it out for you later. But it's going to be ugly. It's going to be chaos because it's going to be retaliatory, extreme and the most insane experience of your life. Stay tuned for it. Because the way that things are trending in this, in that direction, there's going to be a Democratic administration next go around. Who's going to be the saving grace? That's going to be the moderate that steps in and goes, dude, this is crazy. Can we step up to the plate? Unless. Which I thought about and you guys leave me your opinions in the comments on this. Is Tucker Carlson and company positioning themselves? I don't, I'm not saying they're doing it deliberately because it could be inadvertently positioning themselves to take over the administration and the next political cycle, next presidential cycle. If that's the case, then they're going to come out swinging for the next two and a half years and it's going to be wild, guys. It's going to be insane. I'm here for it. You're. You're here for it. All right, guys. So lastly, I want to say big shout out to everybody supporting the channel, preaching the choir. I'll link it down below. I do Wednesday Bible study as well as Sunday episodes on my faith journey. Selfishly, the Trojan horse is me convincing you that this is all cool and then trying to get you to convert, if you haven't converted already, to accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. There, I said it. Outside of that, there is no sales tactics. There's no advertisements. I just want to talk to you about what I'm dealing with in my life and hopefully it resonates. Thanks so much for supporting that channel. Until next time. Peace out, guys.