Iran’s Missiles Down, China’s Economy Shaking

Summary

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The Rob Carson Show

Episode Title: Iran’s Missiles Down, China’s Economy Shaking
Air Date: March 5, 2026
Host: Rob Carson
Guests: General Raisin Cain (Regular Contributor), Harry Enten, Tom Cotton, Jesse Watters, Gordon Chang, John Fetterman

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Rob Carson Show is a high-energy, satirical, and fiercely patriotic breakdown of the ongoing military actions against Iran, the cascading effects on China and the global economy, and the political landscape in the United States. Host Rob Carson blends biting humor, musical parody, and guest commentary to cover the effectiveness and impact of the U.S.-led military campaign, shifts in international power balance, Trump’s political standing, and what these events mean for America’s global leadership.
The core message: America—powered by President Trump’s decisive leadership—is winning militarily, diplomatically, and economically, while adversaries and political opponents fall behind.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Decisive Military Progress Against Iran

• Massive reduction in Iranian missile and drone attacks:
  • "Ballistic missile shots fired are down 86% from the first day of fighting, with a 23% decrease just in the last 24 hours. Their one way attack drone shots are down 73%." (General Raisin Cain, [01:39])
  • CENTCOM established localized air superiority and has begun expanding deeper into Iranian territory.
• Satirical take on Iran’s failing capabilities:
  • "There is nothing worse than being penetrated when you have a problem getting your missiles up." (Rob Carson, [02:19])
• General Raisin Cain’s musical parody of the situation:
  • "They effed around and found out. The Ayatollah found out... Epic Fury's gonna do. Do you?" ([02:55])
  • Repeatedly emphasizes “Eff around and find out”—mocking Iran’s failed aggression.

2. Political Reactions and Criticisms

• Pointed critique of the Democratic Party:
  • "Have you heard a single Democrat happy about the freedom of the Iranian people, the potential of the people of Persia being free? ... They are so on the bloody wrong side of history and good." (Rob Carson, [03:42])
  • “The Democrat Party is despicable. You are doing a death spiral into hell and you’re on the wrong side of history once again.” ([04:10])
• Mocking Republicans (Rand Paul) and referencing bipartisan dynamics:
  • Mentions Senate War Powers Resolution’s defeat and bipartisan alliances—“Rand Paul ... I think he smoked some serious weed.” ([04:29])
  • Senator John Fetterman credited for ‘resetting’ his brain and voting with Republicans. ([04:41])

3. Strategic and Historical Significance

• Operation analyzed for its scope and execution:
  • “The first day of the war was nearly double the scale of America’s shock and awe attack in Iraq 2003. Twice the size of shock and awe.” ([05:04])
• U.S. and Israeli joint strategy:
  • Detailed planning and division of Iran into operational zones.
• Humorous take on logistics:
  • “If they’re going to get, you know, frequent flyer miles… It’s an insane amount of miles.” ([06:16])

4. Undermining Iranian and Media Claims

• Iran’s propaganda debunked:
  • “The Iranian regime is claiming … the U.S. forces are withdrawing. ... They claim they sank a U.S. destroyer. Didn’t happen.” ([08:50])
  • “Over a four-day period, US forces have reduced the Iranian drone launches … 73% missile. Missile launches down 86%.” ([09:45])
• Mockery of legacy media:
  • “I’m really actually surprised [the U.S. media] didn’t pick up the Iranian news organization’s statistics.” ([09:21])

5. Trump’s Political Dominance

• Trump’s popularity and influence in GOP primaries:
  • "Trump endorsement: 98% in 2020, 95% in 2022, and then 96% in 2024.” (Harry Enten, [14:42])
  • “His endorsement, President Trump’s endorsement is as good as gold in Republican primary.” ([14:55])
• Vivid analogy:
  • “He’s a Tom Brady. He is a Babe Ruth.” ([14:31])
• Party love:
  • “86% of Republicans approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing at this point. That is higher than either Obama or Bush...” (Harry Enten, [15:32])
• Carson’s punchline:
  • “Donald Trump’s endorsement is as good as gold, but nothing is quite as good as gold right now.” ([16:01])
  • Segues into advice on gold investment (skipped for summary per instructions).

6. Broader Geopolitical Impact: China & the Global Order

• China strategically undermined via Iranian and Venezuelan losses:
  • “We already control the Malacca Strait ... Suez Canal and the Panama Canal. The US Controls all global shipping choke points.” (Jesse Watters, [13:28])
  • “A full naval blockade of China is now possible; their economy’s at our mercy.” (Jesse Watters, [13:37])
• Trump’s campaign hits China’s supply chain and prosperity:
  • “Between what happened in Venezuela and what started happening in Iran, China has lost two of its most important allies in the developing world. They were big energy suppliers... But China was able to buy that energy on the cheap… That is all gone.” (Peter Schweizer, [21:08])
  • “So the ramifications are enormous. And Donald Trump has really shifted the equation…” (Peter Schweizer, [22:15])

7. Expert Analysis: Gordon Chang on The Collapse of China

• America’s ascendancy and China’s decline:
  • “The United States is clearly the world’s only superpower and China is not.” (Gordon Chang, [23:20])
  • “President Trump took two of China’s proxies off the board. Cuba is going to be next. He’s kicking the Chinese out of Panama.” ([23:49])
• Military tech gaps exposed:
  • “China’s radars and integrated command systems ... [were] completely worthless [in Venezuela, and then in Iran].” ([27:01])
  • “Shows that export versions of China’s military equipment against an advanced military like ours [are] basically worthless.” ([27:48])
• Energy stranglehold and economic pressure:
  • “Gasoline prices up 11.0%, diesel prices up 13.5%. If the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, this could cripple the Chinese economy.” ([26:31])
• Historical echo: U.S. used to be energy-dependent:
  • “Do you remember when OPEC was in charge of oil and they could snap their fingers ... and those days are over, brother.” (Carson, [34:00])
  • “China is trying to propagate this notion that they own the world, but they’re not going to own the world.” (Chang, [35:01])

8. Nuclear Threats and Policy Decisiveness

• Imminent Iranian nuclear threat and U.S. action:
  • “Iran had the components for North Korea’s Wah Song 15 ICBM, which ... could hit any part of the United States.” (Chang, [28:50])
  • “They mentioned ... they had enough uranium for 11 nuclear bombs, for God’s sake. They said that.” (Carson, [29:10])
  • “To get from 60 to bomb-grade Uranium is very quick. So, yeah, they were on the cusp.” (Chang, [29:44])

9. Rare Bipartisan Acknowledgment: John Fetterman

• Fetterman praises U.S. military success, criticizes party’s reluctance to celebrate:
  • “Now, I remember the Iranian generals were saying that our ships were going to end at the bottom of the ocean, and that’s theirs. Look ... Boom ... I love it ... I don’t know why we can’t be on and just celebrate that.” (John Fetterman, [37:40])
  • “Said, we can never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb. ... And that’s made that impossible right now.” ([38:15])
  • “Why can’t we, as a Democrat, just say, hey, I think that’s a good thing?” ([38:32])
  • “I think that the world’s safer. I think it’s more just. And then I do think we have a possible path for real, true, enduring peace in the region.” ([38:44])

10. Rob Carson’s Final Points and Tone

• Fierce celebration of American victories and mockery of political/diplomatic adversaries.
• Encouragement: “You overwhelm the left with joy and patriotism. I will handle the mockery, ridicule, and satire—and Donald Trump can handle the ass kick.” ([16:08])
• Boisterous gloating about “winning”, recurring “winning” theme song.
• Use of pop culture analogies, music, and relentless snark and satire, especially toward the media and Democratic Party.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote / Moment | |-----------|---------|----------------| | 01:39 | General Raisin Cain | “Ballistic missile shots fired are down 86% from the first day of fighting ... one way attack drone shots are down 73%...” | | 02:19 | Rob Carson | “There is nothing worse than being penetrated when you have problem getting your missiles up. That ought to tell you right now.” | | 02:55 | General Raisin Cain | “They effed around and found out. The Ayatollah found out. I mean business and I'll get my way against us. They were plotting.” | | 03:42 | Rob Carson | “As we experience what is the greatest military operation probably in American recorded history ... it is absolutely masterful, our military doing this.”| | 05:04 | Rob Carson | “The first day of the war was nearly double the scale of America's shock and awe attack in Iraq 2003. Twice the size of shock and awe.”| | 09:45 | Rob Carson | “Over a four day period, US forces have reduced the Iranian drone launches ... 73% ... missile launches down 86%.” | | 14:31 | Harry Enten | “He’s a Tom Brady. He is a Babe Ruth.” | | 15:32 | Harry Enten | “86% of Republicans approve of the job Donald Trump is doing at this point. That is higher than either Obama or Bush had within their own party...” | | 21:08 | Jesse Watters | “China has lost two of its most important allies ... 20 to 25% of their energy ... they weren’t paying in US dollars, they were paying in the Chinese currency. That is all gone.” | | 23:20 | Gordon Chang | “The United States is clearly the world's only superpower and China is not.” | | 27:01 | Gordon Chang | “We know that the Chinese radars that the Iranians were using, they were not able to see what was going on. And we have taken them out.” | | 29:44 | Gordon Chang | “To get from 60 to bomb grade uranium is very quick. So, yeah, they were on the cusp of having a nuclear weapon.” | | 38:44 | John Fetterman | “I think that the world's safer. I think it's more just. And then I do think we have a possible path for real, true, enduring peace in the region.” |

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• [01:39] – Military update on Iran: effectiveness, stats, and air superiority.
• [03:42] – Rob’s first detailed political analysis and critique of Democrats.
• [05:04] – Scale and phases of the military operation.
• [09:45] – Recap of impact on Iranian missile/drone launches.
• [13:28] – Jesse Watters: U.S. naval dominance and implications for China.
• [14:31-15:32] – Harry Enten: Trump’s stratospheric popularity.
• [18:43] – Trump (via General Raisin Cain): Reflects on Iranian aggression & Soleimani.
• [19:27-20:32] – Tom Cotton: Praises U.S. military success and its strategic necessity.
• [21:08] – Peter Schweizer: China’s lost energy axis and AI contracts.
• [22:32-35:20] – Gordon Chang: Deep dive on China’s troubles, tech shortfalls, and U.S. ascendancy.
• [37:34] – John Fetterman: The lone Democrat celebrating U.S. military achievements.

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Tone, Style, and Takeaways

• Tone: Fast-paced, witty, satirical, and unapologetically partisan. Rob Carson leans heavy into comedic mockery, musical parody, and sharp cultural references, but the analysis from guests like Gordon Chang is sober and data-driven.
• Language: Direct, irreverent, with recurring playful jabs at adversaries and political opponents.
• Takeaway: The U.S. is not just prevailing militarily, but fundamentally reshaping the global power dynamic, unchecked by hesitant political opposition or international rivals—with Trump at the center of it all.

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For First-Time Listeners

This episode blends military and geopolitical analysis with relentless humor and pointed political commentary. The main story is America's overwhelming military success against Iran, the ripple effects crippling China, and the domestic political consequences as Trump’s popularity rises. Guest voices and experts substantiate the narrative that the U.S.—under Trump—is winning decisively, while adversaries and naysayers, both foreign and domestic, are left floundering.

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End of Summary

Transcript

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[Harry Inton]

Hold it.

[Rob Carson]

Now you are about to hear the most interesting, informative, thought provoking and funny

[General Raisin Cain]

show in America on air and on

[Rob Carson]

the world Wide web. This is the Rob Carson Show. P minus one day till Friday. I give you General Raisin Cain. A rants theater Ballistic Ballistic missile shots fired are down 86% from the first day of fighting with a 23% decrease just in the last 24 hours. And their one way attack drone shots are down 73% from the opening days. This progress has allowed CENTCOM to establish localized air superiority across the southern flank of the Iranian coast and penetrate their defenses with overwhelming precision and firepower Will now begin to expand inland, striking progressively deeper into Iranian territory and creating additional freedom of maneuver for US forces. Yeah, man. There is nothing worse than being penetrated when you have problem getting your missiles up. That ought to tell you right now.

[General Raisin Cain]

Jim Gas warned Iran that the nukes must end. My deadline for them I won't extend. Now they run around the plot attack no one had the Ayatollah's back around and find out.

[Rob Carson]

Oh yeah they did.

[General Raisin Cain]

They effed around and found out. The Ayatollah found out. I mean business and I'll get my way against us. They were plotting.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, they were.

[General Raisin Cain]

And look at what they've gotten.

[Rob Carson]

No pallets of cash f around and

[General Raisin Cain]

find out their leadership. It will exist no more. You better surrender or you are through. Listen up, Malu. I am warning you, 49 leaders, you've already already lost. You'll continue at a heavy cost. Eff around and find out. Stick around and find out. Screw around and find out. Epic Fury's gonna do. Do you?

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. Epic Fury is kicking some serious butt, thank you very much. I mean, like serious, serious butt. And if you notice something here. Have you noticed that the Democrat Party have not said one single positive thing about our military and their operation? They've not said anything about the. They're having. They've not said a damned thing about the Ayatollah dying other than Adam Schiff saying that he regretted it, I guess. Or Zoran Mandami not committing to whether that was a good or bad thing. That is your Democrat Party. That is your Democrat Party. As we experience what is the greatest military operation probably in American recorded history, as far as firepower, as far as dominance altogether, it is absolutely masterful, our military doing this. Have you heard a single Democrat happy about the freedom of the Iranian people, the potential of the people of Persia being free? Have you heard a single, single thing? You haven't. They are so on the bloody wrong side of history and good. It is utterly, utterly ridiculous, to be quite honest. Honestly, can you believe it? The first day, the first hours of the operation, Democrats were calling it a disaster. You are despicable. The Democrat Party is despicable. You are doing a death spiral into hell and you're on the wrong side of history once again. There you go. War Power's resolution to restrain Trump's action falls in the Senate because it was a bunch of garbage. War powers resolution. Resolution fell 47 to 53. Rand Paul, of course, broke ranks. I think he smoked some serious weed. Voted to restrict President Trump. Democrat Senator John Fetterman voted with Republicans because he had turned his brain off and then restarted it and reset it and common sense all sudden happened. I would recommend that every Democrat have some sort of a brain aneurysm or something like that and fix your head anyway. Senate Republicans voted largely along party lines Wednesday to defeat a bipartisan war. Power is resolution to halt military action. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It failed. There you go. There you go. And the Iranian war has been a stunning. It's not a war, so it's not a war. What is it good for? Well, kicking Iran's rear end is what it is. The Economist says the Iran war has been a stunning aerial success. Claimed Middle east claimed in. In more than in four days had attacked two target 17 ships. Among them a submarine. An American submarine appears to attacked and sunk an Iranian frigate near. That's what they said. Frigate near Sri Lankan waters 3,000 kilometers from Iran. America's first use of a torpedo since 1945. Holy heck. The first day of the war was nearly double the scale of America's shock and awe attack in Iraq 2003. Twice the size of shock and awe. Shock and awe. Let me rock it. Let me rock you. Shock and awe. Discussions began last summer after the 12 day war. But joint strike planned were developed by the IDF's chief of staff visited the Pentagon in January. The two countries divided Iran into large zones which they call ballistic missile operation areas, or bomomas, whatever they are. Israeli deals with western and central Iran, including Tehran. The American handles the southern Iran and adjacent waters. The war plans involve several phases. Two have been implemented thus far. Number one is kick some serious butt. And then number two is kick what's left of their butt. There you go. No, actually, first was the opening strike on February 18. Second was the subsequent 100 hours in which Israel attacked its highest priority targets out of fear that President Trump might call off an early end of the war. That ain't gonna happen because we got an amazing present third phase lower priority targets now underway. Planners say there are sufficient American and Israeli targets for four or five weeks of war. So they've got enough to kill them, you know, take them all out in the next couple of weeks. But you know what? They're going to be done by four or five weeks, which I believe is what the president promised. Oh, yeah.

[Harry Inton]

Mm.

[Rob Carson]

Most targets are earmarked for later in this conflict. Iran has done little to do anything with the sites that we destroyed last year, the. The nuke sites. March 3, Israel said it attacked the Min Zadai complex on the northeast edge of Tehran, which it claims was covertly facilitating nuclear weapons. So it's kind of interesting I this point yesterday made by Doug Burns. He said the Democrats claimed that Donald Trump did wipe out. Did not wipe out Iran's nuclear capabilities when he struck Fordo and those other places last year. And yet at the same time, they claim that their nuclear facility has been destroyed and Donald Trump there's no threat for us to go into Iran and attack them. Oh, Democrats, if there weren't for double standards, would have no double standard or no standards at all. That's my friend Chris Plant. Britain's decision to grant America permission to use Diego Garcia, a vital air base in the Indian Ocean, will help by the way, America, increase the rate of flights, reuse crews and all of that stuff. Then also another thing is you don't have to fly bombers from South Dakota and Missouri clear across the ocean. Round trip of like 37,000 miles or something. It's an insane amount of miles. I mean, if they're going to get, you know, frequent flyer miles. Holy hell, that's great. I mean, honestly. But otherwise, it's kind of a waste of time. Iran's political leadership in turmoil, with the next supreme leader, Khamenei's son, Mojit Ba, one of the rumored candidates also marked for assassination. He's like, no, dude, I'm fine. I'm going to do accounting. I don't, I don't want to be the, the new Ayatollah. I'm absolutely golden. You know, I might even open a little falafel shop over here. Not even thinking about. No, no, no, I'm fine, I'm fine. Give it to the next guy. Give it to the next guy. Anyway, General Kaine said that the Iranian ballistic missile launches down 86%. Their missiles. They can't get their missiles up, for God's sake. From the first day of the war, 23% fall. Between March 3rd and 4th alone, drone attacks were down 73%. More importantly, perhaps Israel. Intelligence sources suggest there are signs of Iranian soldiers, police officers, and IRG members failing to show up for duty. I am so sorry. I am feeling very sick today. I will not make them to make it to work today. I am sorry. No, I cannot do it. Thank you. Click. Well, there's another one. I know. We're kicking butt, guys. We're kicking butt. And over here, the Iranian regime is claiming all these things. Kind of like our, our media here. They're not saying anything good. They're only saying that, I mean, dear God. They claim that the U.S. forces are withdrawing. Okay. They claim they sank a U.S. destroyer. Didn't happen. IRGC claims to have taken down a U.S. fighter aircraft. Didn't happen. The regime says they killed 100 U.S. marines. Didn't happen. I'm surprised actually, that, you know, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSnow have not said. Oh, yeah, this is what they said. It must be true. I'm really actually surprised they didn't pick up the Iranian news organization's statistics. The reality, US forces expanding strikes deeper into Iranian airspace by the hour. US forces sank 20 Iranian regime vessels with overwhelming firepower from air, land and sea. Over a four day period, US forces have reduced the Iranian drone launches. I mentioned this. 73% missile. Missile launches down 86%. There you go. Yeah, that's what we're doing. We are kicking butt and taking names. And most of those names are Muhammad. So this is what Donald Trump promised and this is what makes everything so different about this president. Do you not understand? Do you not understand how different this president is? Do you understand this guy went to Washington D.C. his first term? I said he went to Washington D.C. and he was the first president to do what he said he was going to do in a very long time. And since then, also I've said he's the only real candidate that the people have elected in a very long time. McCain was chosen. Romney was chosen. Hillary's chosen. Biden was chosen. Kamala was chosen. None of us had a choice. We had to take what the party gave us. That was it. Donald Trump is different. And that the entire deep state, the leftist media and our country's enemies hate him so much and want to take him down. Should give you a clue as to the fact we made the right choice. Ta da. It's a pretty good opening monologue. All right, so coming up, some unbelievable statistics about Donald Trump and his popularity. I know everybody said, oh, he's way underwater. Oh, no, no, no, he's not underwater. Like, you know, Iran's Navy. No, no, no, no. He's, he's doing quite well in the midterms. Democrats are shaking in their boots. Let's take a break and come back. This, my friends, is the Rob Carson Show.

[General Raisin Cain]

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[Rob Carson]

You would not believe how we're kicking China's butt too, by the way, with going after Iran, going after Venezuela, China is hurting. And joining us at the bottom of the hour is Gordon Chang. He wrote about the coming collapse of China and I wrote him last night as a dude, oh, it's being accelerated. It is being accelerated. It is friggin amazing what is happening over there. And we are owning, like, for instance, we are owning basically every major shipping lane in the world. Here's Jesse Waters.

[Jesse Waters]

We already control the Malacca Strait in Southeast Asia, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal. The US Controls all global shipping choke points. A full naval blockade of China is now possible. Their economies at our mercy. If things ever got saucy. So we're killing two birds with one stone. We stop the number one state sponsor of terror and we checkmate the Chinese.

[Rob Carson]

Sucks to be you, don't it, Democrats? All you can do is caterwaul and complain. And not say anything good about our troops while they're just performing such an in an amazing fashion in the 250th year of our birth. What a glorious year to leave the Democrats in the dust. I mean, it really, really is. Hey, you know what somebody was mentioning yesterday. You haven't heard the winning jingle in a while because it's one of your favorite things. So let's go ahead and play it. We love to win. Winning, winning. So much winning. It's lots of winning. Lots of winning. Lots of winning, Lots of winning, lots of winning, lots of winning. It's so, so good. Here is Harry Inton with some great news about Donald Trump's popularity.

[Harry Inton]

Two Republican primaries. He's a Tom Brady. He is a Babe Ruth. Because take a look here. Times Trump endorses one go.

[Rob Carson]

He's talking about Trump endorsement. Wait till you hear how popular he is in the Republican Party primaries.

[Harry Inton]

Congressional and gubernatorial ra. 98% in 2020, 95% in 2022, and then 96% in 2024. Now, I will note that oftentimes he endorses incumbents and those folks don't necessarily have very hard challenges. But even when he endorses challengers against incumbents, the challengers win a majority of the time. Well, his endorsement, President Trump's endorsement is as good as gold in Republican primary.

[Rob Carson]

You compare it to Tom Brady actually does better than Tom. Tom Brady lost.

[Tom Cotton]

He did a few Super Bowls, stunningly.

[Harry Inton]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

Donald Trump almost never lo he endorses in a primary because why?

[Harry Inton]

Why? Because Republicans love Donald Trump.

[Rob Carson]

How much do they love him, Harry?

[Harry Inton]

More than any president's own party supporters

[Rob Carson]

loved him at this NBC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC.

[Harry Inton]

Just take a look here. Okay. Own party supporters, 21st century presidents own party approval about at this point in the second term, Bush was at 77%, Obama was at 77%. Look at the this. 86% of Republicans approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing at this point. That is higher than either Obama or Bush had within their own party at this point. Trump's magic touch has not seemed to wore off yet when it comes to the Republican base.

[Rob Carson]

And what kind of approval are we talking about here?

[Harry Inton]

Okay, so we're talking about overall approval here. How about the strongly.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. In the 90s, like 98%. 98%. Republicans are saying we love the president. You know why? Because he's doing a pretty damn good job. In fact, a historical and awesome job. It is remarkable. I wrote a piece today on, on the substack. It was Quite good. I was inspired this morning by my son, actually, who is not, you know, does not agree with my politics, to say the least. So I wrote this. He wrote this thing about this. Donald Trump is underwater with his popularity, you know, and all of this stuff. And so I wrote this piece called C Blocking the Trump Revolution. American pollsters attempt to shutter revolutionary change because they are only there to protect and promote the establishment. Oh, my God. Rob Carson wrote that. You sound like you almost know what you're talking about. Yeah, because I kind of do. Anyway, if you get a chance to check that out, look up substack Rob Carson Show. So people are loving what Donald Trump is doing. I told you. And I will once again tell you that you overwhelm the left with joy and patriotism. I will handle the mockery, ridicule, and satire, and Donald Trump can handle the ass kick. How's that sound? I think it sounds like a pretty good exchange. You know, Donald Trump's endorsement is as good as gold, but nothing is quite as good as gold right now. I was doing a little figuring today because the price of gold today is about $5,048 an ounce. And if you would have bought $20,000 worth of gold in 2006, you would have got 33 ounces. And I got this little calculator on my phone here, and I took 33 times $5,048 and came up with $1,584. That's what your 20 grand would be worth now had you invested that 20 grand in gold in 2006, 20 years ago. Maybe you should get on the gold bandwagon, because you know what? You look at international events and uncertainty. You look at the central banks buying gold. It is not coming down, guys. It's going. It's a rocket ship, baby. So I would suggest that you text my name, Rob to 989-898. Rob to 989-898 for Birch Gold. Look into an IRA or 401k attack sheltered retirement account in gold. Yeah. With an A plus rating for the Better Business Bureau. Tens of thousands of happy customers. Let Bursk Gold help you diversify with gold. That is peace of mind, people. People, text Rob to 989-898 again. Rob to 989-898 for Burch Gold. Here is Donald Trump talking about desperate Iran lashing out at its supposed allies and further digging their own graves are being wiped out. Out.

[General Raisin Cain]

They're attacking their neighbors. They're attacking their, in some cases, allies, or not so long ago, allies. And you know, it's really a nation that was out of control and they would have used it on us if we let them. We waited any longer. A big, a big factor was Soleimani. The killing of Soleimani in my first term.

[Rob Carson]

That was good.

[General Raisin Cain]

And maybe the biggest factor was the

[Rob Carson]

rebuilding of the ship that we sank with our submarine was named after Solomoni

[General Raisin Cain]

Lutheran my first term. And then the B2s hit the. And I use the word obliterate because it really was.

[Rob Carson]

It was, yeah. Totally obliterated. Totally obliterated. Tom Cotton, Senator was talking about the overwhelming success that our, our mainstream media and the Democrats won't acknowledge.

[Tom Cotton]

And if you're a senior leader in Iran, you get called to meeting, maybe you should skip it. It is an incredible decision.

[Rob Carson]

I cannot make the meeting. I'm feeling sick today.

[Tom Cotton]

Display of skill and bravery and ingenuity by our military and our intelligence agencies. We haven't seen any, anything like this in two months since we did it in Venezuela to Nicolas Maduro.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Tom Cotton]

President Trump once again boldly, boldly used our overwhelming force, our critical insights from our intelligence agencies to knock Iran back on its heels.

[Rob Carson]

You've outlined back into the seventh century. Oh, wait, they were there.

[Tom Cotton]

The evidence, Shawn, there's thousands and thousands of missiles. They vastly could overwhelm our missile defenses combined with Israel and our Arab friends.

[Rob Carson]

But we drug them out.

[Tom Cotton]

This was an absolutely necessary decision. I commend President Trump for taking it. And Iran doesn't have nearly as many missiles anymore. We've seen the rates of fire falling significantly. It's still a serious risk. Our troops are still at danger. This is still probably going to take weeks, not days. But it's been a striking success here in the first few days of this campaign.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. And the Democrat Party is going to be left in the dust. Even NATO is already figuring out Alibaba want to get behind this. Carney in Canada's going, oh, maybe we ought to get behind this. That dip wad in charge of Great Britain, even he's like, okay, maybe we ought to get behind this Democrat Party in the meantime. Oh, no, it's a disaster. Honestly, people, continue your death spiral into hell. We will not stop you. Gordon Chang on the other side of this break. This is the Rob Carson Show. Shock this one.

[Jesse Waters]

Think about it. Over the last, last 58 days, between what happened in Venezuela and what started happening in Iran, China has lost two of its most important allies in the developing world. They were big energy suppliers, about 20 to 25% of their energy. But China was able to buy that energy on the cheap because they were sanctioned companies. They were paying $15 a barrel less than anybody else was. And by the way, they weren't paying in US Dollars, they were paying in the Chinese currency. And that has been a long term object. China to move away from a dollar based economy. That is all gone. But it's having effects that we don't even fully appreciate. Jesse, look at the air race. You think, what does this have to do with AI? Well, two of the biggest AI contractors in China are Huawei and zte. These are big telecom infrastructure companies. They're vital to China's AI capabilities. They both have huge contracts in Venezuela and Iran for which they are now not going to be paid. And you know, we're talking about tens of billions of dollars in contracts of revenue that they were expecting to get, that they weren't getting. They were doing a lot of AI testing in these countries. So the ramifications are enormous. And Donald Trump has really shifted the equation with China within a matter of less than two months.

[Rob Carson]

Unbelievable what is happening. And I have been dying to talk about, I mean, the preeminent expert on China, Gordon Chang, the author of the coming Collapse of China Plan Red China's Project to Destroy America. He's on the Newsmax island. How you doing, sir?

[Gordon G. Chang]

I'm fine, Rob. How are you?

[Rob Carson]

Oh my God, I am so, I am so glorious. That of course, Peter Schweizer, we just heard from the the plan to China to destroy the American currency and make their currency the currency of choice. Sounds like that is collapsing. You've got the American right now. I saw last night on Jesse Waters we all of the major waterways in the world, including not only the Strait of Hormuz, but the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal. I mean, this is remarkable, Gordon.

[Gordon G. Chang]

It is remarkable. You know, the Chinese, for a very long time Xi Jinping has been propagating this notion that China is going to own the 21st century and the US was in terminal decline. Well, that never was true. But nonetheless, that was the narrative that people accepted. Now what we're seeing is that the United States is clearly the world's only superpower and China is not. I mean, it is so crystal. And this important thing is that President Trump took two of China's proxies off the board. Cuba is going to be next. He's kicking the Chinese out of Panama. This is important because it shows that in calm times, you know, any large country with a big propaganda machine like China can sort of make these absurd claims. But when the times get rough. We are seeing the Chinese slink back into the shadow. They're not able to protect their friends. They're not even able to protect their own interests. And the Chinese economy now is crumbling because it's been addicted to cheap oil, and it's not getting it.

[Rob Carson]

No, it is remarkable. You remember back when, when Donald Trump first was inaugurated, and I think Hegseth went down to the Panama Canal and said, look at all these signs in here in Chinese. This crap's over. Because China had effectively taken over the Panama Canal. That was the first major chess move. And since then, I mean, could you have ever imagined this by this point in the presidency, particularly the last 58 days?

[Gordon G. Chang]

Yeah. No. No, I could not have seen this. I didn't see this. What's important here is that President Trump is using force and he's changing the world, and he's changing the world in ways that neither the Russians nor the Chinese can oppose him. And by the way, the North Koreans are quiet. So this is, this is a very good scenario for us. North Korea, he's taking the Chinese and knocking them down a peg. So how is this not great for America?

[Rob Carson]

Unbelievable. And also, you look at the fact that we've, we've taken over their fuel supply. So Taiwan is off the table for China. They can't even consider an aggressive military action that would end pretty quickly. I think they don't have the, the, the, the power plant for it then also, I mean, North Korea is completely reliant on, on China. Like Cuba was completely reliant on the Soviet Union. And once that gravy train is over, what the hell else does North Korea have to offer? They can't keep their military machine going.

[Gordon G. Chang]

Yeah, North Korea right now is getting a lot of money from Russia because it's supplying artillery shells, short range ballistic missiles, and soldiers. So North Korea has sort of diversified itself. The country, though, that is really ailing is Cuba, because Cuba was getting a lot of very cheap energy from Venezuela, which it's not anymore. More. And we're seeing these incredible shortages in Cuba right now where business is stopping, and by the way, in China itself in the last few days. Gasoline prices up 11.0%, diesel prices up 13.5%. If the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, this could cripple the Chinese economy.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, we're in control of it now. I mean, it is remarkable what's happening. You know what else, Gordon, is, you know, we have seen twice now that Chinese hardware for radar, for countermeasures against American Attacks have been chosen shown to be completely worthless.

[Gordon G. Chang]

Yeah, both in Venezuela and in Iran. I had assumed that after Venezuela, where the Chinese radars and integrated command systems somehow didn't see 150 or more American aircraft in or near Venezuelan airspace, base, I sort of assumed after that debacle, which was January3, that China would send over more advanced versions to Iran, which I think they did. We don't know what was in those Chinese cargo planes, but also we know that the Chinese radars that the Iranians were using, they were not able to see what was going on. And we have taken them out. And that shows that export versions of China's military equipment against an advanced military like ours, basically worthless.

[Rob Carson]

You know, it's, it's interesting because Iran has been completely abandoned by the people who they've been supplying oil to. I mean, completely abandoned. That. That's all you need to hear, that Russia and China have said, oh, you know what? You're on your own. You're on your own. That, that is, that is a gigantic statement about the power of our military. You know, and, and by the way, this would be a different ball game if Kamala Har in the office of presidency.

[Gordon G. Chang]

Well, she would not have done this, of course, because she did not believe, you know, apparently didn't believe that the US had the right to use force. But it was important because there are a lot of people who are saying, well, Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the United States. I think that was wrong, Rob, because the Iranian president at the end of December actually said there was a state of publicly said there was a state of war between the United States States and Iran. We know that after that, the Chinese started flying in a lot of cargo planes, and we don't know what was inside of them. And we also know, despite a lot of experts saying it, but we also know that Iran had the components for North Korea's Wah Song 15 intercontinental ballistic missile, which has a range of 12,000 kilometers, which means if launched from Iran, it could hit any part of the United States.

[Rob Carson]

So they mentioned, they mentioned in talks with the United States they had enough uranium for 11 nuclear bombs, for God's sake. They said that. So, I mean, you think that's going to end well?

[Gordon G. Chang]

Yeah, well, they bragged about that and to Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and, you know, I'm glad that President Trump said, I'm not putting up with that. Now, 60% uranium, which is what they claimed is not enough for a bomb, but to get from 60 to bomb grade Uranium is very quick, Very quick. So, yeah, they, they were on the cusp of having a nuclear weapon. And as I mentioned, they had the components for an icbm. So that's, that's imminent in my book.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, absolutely. Can we continue the conversation on the other side of the break? Court Gordon Chang, of course. All right, very good. More with the Gordon Chang. Thank you very much. On the other side of the break. This is the Rob Carson Show.

[Steve]

Looked at, Steve, when we attacked Iran to see what happened, happened to Kharg Island. Kharg Island, Iran's main oil export terminal was in flames. And that means China's oil lifeline from the Ayatollah was going up in smoke. That's very important because it means a lot of things. It means, first of all, the Iranians can't get money from China, which was half of their budget. It means, secondly that brics is probably dead because they were paying Iran in renminbi, cheap Chinese currency. They could print it at will. Now that that is gone, they'll have to pay in dollars again. They'll need, Bill, tens of billions of dollars to pay for oil. Trump is smiling, said, we'll be happy to sell them oil. Well, yeah, and they'll be paying in dollars.

[Rob Carson]

There you go. That is the 3D, 4D, 4D chess that, that Donald Trump is playing. By the way, Gordon G. Chang is at Gordon G. Chang on Twitter. So if you're not following Gordon G. Chang, you're not following anybody. Because I got to tell you, there's nobody I'd rather have on this show during this time than Gordon Chang. Gordon, you know, we've been talking about this a long time, bro. I've, I've. Can you believe, I think I've had you on the air for six years now? And, and I told you that in 1989, we saw the Berlin Wall fall, and in 1989, we saw Tiananmen Square. And we've had to sit here and endure this. Do you suppose we're any closer to that collapse, Collapse with Communist China?

[Gordon G. Chang]

We're closer. And lot of it is because Xi Jinping has been driving the country in the wrong direction. But now you have this external shock, and the question is, is the United States going to come to the rescue of Chinese communism? Now? I hope President Trump doesn't do that. You know, Nixon did it, George H.W. bush did it, Bill Clinton did it, and we did it with the best of intentions, but it hasn't worked out for either us or the international community. So now is the Time to let the Chinese Communist Party fail on its own. And I think that it could, probably could do that because we can see the economy is stumbling bad enough already before Iran, and now it's even worse.

[Rob Carson]

The White House unveiled America's AI action plan, and rather than seed this to Communist China, and it sounded like we were going in that direction, that China was going to outpace us on AI. And yesterday, not only they unveiled this, but they also said that if you're going to build these massive facilities for AI, you've got to create your own power. So you're going to have a dearth of energy production, not only to power this, but also maybe even have some surplus. So we're going to be energy rich. We're going to be ahead of the AI game. What do you see as far as, as far as the AI battlefield, which, by the way, is going to end up moving into quantum computing, which is going to change everything. How quickly are we going to pull ahead of China on this?

[Gordon G. Chang]

We're already ahead of China. And the reason is because we make the world's most, or at least design the world's most sophisticated semiconductors. Thank you, Jensen Huang and Nvidia and also AMD and to lesser extent, some other companies. Companies. So we're already ahead. Now, I'm not saying that we have an insurmountable lead, because we don't. But if we're going to lose this, it's because we want to lose this. And President Trump has made it clear we're not losing it. So I think that this is great the way we're going. And, yes, we need more data centers, we need more energy. And we should always remember that energy is a very important part of America's lead in the world. We are energy independent.

[Rob Carson]

That made all the difference, didn't it? Because yesterday I believe oil was down despite, you know, going after Iran. One of the images you remember, Gordon, you remember. I think you're a little bit older than me, right around the same age. You remember when OPEC was in charge of oil and they could snap their fingers and cut off the supply and make us stand in line for gasoline. And those days are over, brother. It's wild to see us in the gapbird seat. Right, right.

[Gordon G. Chang]

I remember waiting 45 minutes or more in line at a gas station. And, you know, then I thought that I would be working for some sheikh for the rest of my life because, you know, the Arabs had grabbed all the oil, but it didn't happen. And, you know, when the Japanese looked like they were going to take over the world in the middle of the 1980s. I knew it wasn't going to happen. I didn't know how the Japanese would think fail, but I knew that they would fail because I wasn't working for an Arab. And it's the same thing with China. China is trying to propagate this notion that they own the world, but they're not going to own the world. Matter of fact, I think they're going to fail pretty soon. Now, I've been wrong on timing, but the point is we can see all the elements of failure of the Chinese state. And by the way, we can thank President Trump for that because he has put the US in such a position that it looks like we are so far ahead of the Chinese.

[Rob Carson]

When you consider everything, it's, it's fantastic. These are, these are historic times, aren't they? My friend, Gordon G. Chang, I really, I appreciate you being on Gordon G. Chang on Twitter, by the way. And if you want to go to Amazon, just look up some of his great books, the Coming Collapse of China. You might want to get that. I think it's going to go up in value. All of these, Gordon. Thank you, my friend. I appreciate you.

[Gordon G. Chang]

Well, I appreciate it, Rob. And stay safe.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, yes. All right, let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson show who Rage against the Machine. We love them, don't we? Thanks. Your music is a little hard, Ron. I say it ain't hard enough. Crank it up, Brian. Come on. Gift to music. There you go. So a lot of stuff going on, a lot of stuff going on in the world. Next hour, I want to talk about in Fairfax county in Northern Virginia, Stephanie Mentor was murdered by an illegal and everybody knew this. The Fairfax Police Department warned the jackass prosecutor in the city and they let this guy out. He'd rape people. He had stabbed people. And this is, this is your, the, the governor, the crazy cat lady, Abigail SC Hamburger. She's going to usher in a new era of this nonsense. So we're going to get to that next hour on the show. Hillary Clinton. Got some news on Hillary Clinton. Oh, and a little bit more on the grilling yesterday, Tim and Keith Ellison. Honestly, if you, if you don't recognize a 34,000% increase in autism spending as an issue in six years, you know it's happening and you're ignoring it. Please give me a friggin break. My God, John Fetterman is awesome. He's the only voice of common sense in the Democrat Party. It is kind of strange, right? He is an island of sanity in a sea of the insane. And here he is talking about the Democrat Party and why they aren't getting behind our soldiers and the glorious things they're doing right now.

[John Fetterman]

I watched the highlights that you showed. Showed, especially the ship getting blown out of the water.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[John Fetterman]

Now, I remember the Iranian generals were saying that our ships were going to end at the bottom of the ocean, and that's theirs. Look at that again. It's on the screen right now. Boom. You know, like, I love it. You know, I mean, so I don't know why we can't be on and just celebrate that. Yeah. But I guarantee you, every single member of the Congress that you just had there.

[Rob Carson]

Do you know why? Because they see every victory Donald Trump has as another step to their doom. That's it. No matter what it is. No matter what it is. Nothing good could be celebrated as long as Donald Trump does it. That's it.

[John Fetterman]

Said, we can never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb. And now, now that that's happened now, and that's made that impossible right now.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[John Fetterman]

And then we all agree. They all now say, well, we won't. We won't grieve, you know, that, that the Ayatollah is gone. So, you know, when someone did that and made sure that possible, why can't we, as a Democrat just say, hey, I think that's a good thing?

[Rob Carson]

I think because the Democrat Party is morally and intellectually bankrupt.

[John Fetterman]

I think that the world's safer. I think it's more just. And then I do think we have a possible path for real, true, enduring peace in the region.

[Rob Carson]

You know, I. Millennial peace in the Middle East. Oh, my God, say that.

[John Fetterman]

I will acknowledge that, that, you know, because why they can't. Because they've seen that, too. And they all know that we can never have. Allow them to have a nuclear bomb and that he really, it's better that he's been killed. But, you know, because they're, as a Democrat, they're afraid to just agree with

[Rob Carson]

Trump on anything 100%. I told you this, that all they are is contrarian to Donald Trump, no matter what good he does, regardless of the economy, they're willing to lie about it. They're willing to. To deny it. They're willing to fight him. Dear guys, they impeached him twice. They tried to put him in jail. They tried to take his fortune, they tried to take him off the ballot. They raided Mar A Lago and they tried to kill him. A couple times. What the hell do you expect? But the thing is, it's not working. It's not working. The plan is working right now. We're even going into the midterms according to Harvard caps, which means we're really ahead by six or eight. And Donald Trump is more, more popular in his party than Obama ever was and any president in recent history because he's kicking ass at taking names. And a lot of those names just happen to be Muhammad. Our number two of the Rob Carson is right ahead. Don't go anywhere. This episode is brought to you by Nespresso Introducing Virtual Upper the latest in a long line of innovation from Nespresso. It's innovation you can touch, sense and taste in every single cup. With a three second start, easy open lever and dedicated brew over ice button, it's even easier to enjoy your coffee your way. Sip for yourself. Shop Vertuo up [e-mail] how many discounts

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