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State Department whistleblower Dr. J. Michael Springmann joins FFWN to break down the week’s news.

Transcript:

Kevin Barrett: Welcome to False Flag Weekly News, the weekly news show that plows ahead with more evil Epstein–Iran news. That’s our big theme this week, and lots of other interesting—and worse than interesting—stuff. I’m Kevin Barrett with Dr. J. Michael Springman. How’s it going, J. Mike?

J. Michael Springmann: Oh, I’m quite happy to be here. The snow has finally melted and they’re predicting five more inches starting on Sunday, so we shall see.

Okay, I will think of you while I’m running on the beach and frolicking in the Mediterranean. It’s a little chilly for Morocco here, but chilly for Morocco is nice and balmy for America. Well, here’s the fleet steaming towards Iran, flying their Epstein flags, I guess. That’s a nice touch, Trump. So that’s our image of the week.

So here we are: war on Iran. Well, hopefully we’re not quite at war with Iran yet, but it’s looking pretty touch and go at this point. Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz a couple of days ago for drills. They ran drills with Russia. I was on Press TV talking about those drills. Meanwhile, there may be a diplomatic way out. Mike, could Iran send enriched uranium to Russia? Could they figure out a deal?

The nuclear issue is not even an issue. Iran doesn’t even really want to build nuclear weapons. They’re happy to let the inspectors inspect. So it comes down to whether Trump is controlled by the Israelis and is forcing these non-negotiable, totally non-starter offers on the Iranians—like “give up all of your missiles, basically have no more military defense, and break all your ties with your regional allies.” We all know that countries are not allowed to have allies! Of course, the Iranians are rolling their eyeballs at that stuff. What do you think, Mike? Are we going to get a deal or not?

No, not at all. The Wall Street Journal’s headline was denied this morning by Al-Mayadeen English. Quoting Iranian government sources, they said no, we’re not going to ship our refined uranium to Russia. We’re going to keep it here in the bomb-proof bunkers that TrumpleStiltskin and his magnificent B-2 bombers suddenly couldn’t do anything with. All they did was rearrange some rocks on top of the entrances and maybe bomb whatever was above ground.

I don’t think they’re going to ship uranium out of the country this time. They might have done this a couple of years ago if Trump, to use Wayne Madsen’s word, had a thought in his head, or if his controllers or advisors had three brain cells to rub together. But they pushed the Iranians to the point where they’re going to be cooperative on nothing—particularly on things they believe go to their signature on the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which the Israelis flatly refused to sign. The Saudis, with their four to seven nuclear bombs presumably bought from Pakistan, did in fact sign. So it’s going to be an interesting situation when TrumpleStiltskin and his idiots want to cross the Iranian red lines, which they’ve been making very clear for the last several years.

As our theme image of this week suggests, it seems like the Epstein affair spinning out of control may have something to do with Trump’s willingness to risk World War III as a diversion. We’ll get more into those details. Here’s what Trump was saying less than a year ago, last summer. This was put out by the White House: “Iran’s nuclear facilities have been obliterated, and suggestions otherwise are fake news.” Why do we have to go back and obliterate them again?

Well, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and he likes to make these outrageous statements in the vain hope that more than three people will believe him.

He’s getting bored of peace, I think. Here he is at the board of peace meeting a couple of nights ago, in a phase of the Gaza peace plan, ensuring a lasting peace. But falling asleep in his own board of peace meeting does make you want to misspell the word “board.”

The Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, is warning that the U.S. warships are basically sitting ducks. They’ve got missiles that can break through any missile defenses, as they showed when they busted through the Iron Dome last June. These aircraft carriers are really kind of asking for trouble, aren’t they, Mike?

They sure are. They’re sitting ducks. They’re fat targets. They have to keep a steady course when launching and recovering aircraft, which of course will never reach any significant point in Iran. They have to refuel and refuel and refuel because carrier aircraft have short legs and have to be heavied up because of their essentially controlled crashes and folding wings. If you refuel, you’re flying slow and steady and making a great target for anti-aircraft weapons, whether artillery or missiles. Unless he can make his ships amphibious and walk all the way to Tehran, he’s not going to get very far.

Most of the smarter military people have been saying for decades that a war with Iran is a guaranteed loser. That’s what you wrote in “Trumpelstiltskin’s Toy Navy.” Summarize your key points.

Basically, aircraft carriers and warships striking Iran have to come close inshore, where they are absolute targets for anti-ship missiles. Those missiles are pretty much scattered all over the country, but I would imagine there’s a concentration along the southern shores of Iran in the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Gulf, and the Sea of Oman. They have good range—up to 2,000 miles for some of them, especially the Mach 15 hypersonic missile. They can carry a 4,000-pound warhead.

The ships, as I noted earlier, are not amphibious. If they get too close to launch aircraft, they’re marvelous targets. Ansar Allah proved that in the Red Sea over the last few years by flooding anti-aircraft defenses with cheap, low-cost, throwaway drones and missiles. They exhausted the anti-ship missile batteries and had to return to port to reload. Finally, Trump got to the point where he realized they couldn’t overcome this and withdrew his Navy.

That’s going to happen if he dares to attack with his huge armada of four ships. Granted, the three Arleigh Burke–class destroyers displace about 8,000 tons, about that of a pre-war heavy cruiser. But he’s got a limited number of missiles, mostly Tomahawks to hit non-existent nuclear weapons facilities. So Trump is essentially going to send a lot of iron, and a lot of sailors and Marines, to the bottom of the ocean. And then what does he do? I don’t know how they’re going to take that loss very well. He’ll have to explain why he attacked Iran and got nothing. Or if he withdraws and gives up, he’ll have to explain why he wasted billions sending ships, aircraft, and refueling tankers to West Asia at fantastic cost.

It does seem like a fool’s errand from an American perspective. The pressure to do this is coming from Israel, and the speculation is that Israeli assets basically own Trump because they’ve got a lot on him.

There was more news along that line this week. We learned that the DOJ just scrubbed records of interviews with Trump accusers from the Epstein files, and this made it to The New Republic. It appears these accusations relate to that Katie case. You can watch Katie talking about Trump assaulting her when she was 14. Apparently there were witnesses supporting her testimony, and she was believed to be a credible witness by the FBI.

All of that then just got scrubbed from the Epstein files that were released. Half a million files or so just disappeared overnight—but they had already been downloaded by researchers. The whole situation is a total fiasco, almost as big as the one brewing in the Persian Gulf.

But Attorney General Pam Bondi wants us to sing along with her: “It’s the Dow! That’s what we should be talking about!”

The Department of Justice and Kash Patel are going to be working overtime to scrub these files. They’ve released three million unclassified documents, and from what I understand, there are three million more classified documents. If they’re trying to scrub anything incriminating to the current leadership, that’s going to be a big task—even with AI helping.

Here’s Ted Lieu, the representative from California, saying Republicans focus on Bill and Hillary Clinton to distract from the fact that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands of times.