00:00Dr. Samwelli, have they? Has this been, as President Trump has said, no one can believe the success we're having,
00:08he said on Fox News.
00:10And as you've heard from Will's comments there, one of the most successful military operations the U.S. has conducted.
00:16Do you agree with that?
00:17No, of course not.
00:19The fact was that, yes, they obviously, they took out the leading figures in Iran's intelligence, security, military establishments, but
00:31they did that.
00:32Nonetheless, that didn't stop Iran from continuing the fight.
00:37And they're obviously actually fighting better now than they did last June.
00:44Now, these attacks on the Gulf states are very clearly directed because the whole point of what they're doing is
00:55they are showing the actual crisis that the United States is inflicting on these hapless states that have housed American
01:05forces.
01:05In other words, they're showing them that you are inflicting danger upon your own publics by having American forces.
01:14America is a wholly aggressive, malign force in the Middle East.
01:20It's wage wars against one Middle Eastern country after another, whether it's Lebanon, whether it's Libya, whether it's Syria, Iraq,
01:27you know, you just name it.
01:28The United States has done all of those things.
01:30And so those countries that have aligned themselves with the United States and allowed Americans to have bases there have
01:37now put themselves in the line of fire.
01:39And they're not very happy about this.
01:41And this is obviously causing very serious problems.
01:44Leave that aside for the moment.
01:46Then you've got the closing of the Strait of Hormuz.
01:49That's already affecting oil prices around the world.
01:53On top of that, you've got the Iran hitting Aramco refineries.
01:58There are going to be more of those kinds of attacks.
02:00We've had them hitting these, you know, Qatari LNG facilities.
02:07So all of this is contributing to a global economic and financial crisis.
02:14So when you say, well, it'll all be over in a few weeks, maybe.
02:18Who knows what happens in the future?
02:20There could also be an almighty economic and financial crisis that is going to absolutely focus minds in Washington.
02:28Does Trump really want to preside over the U.S. economy tanking?
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