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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

3/19/26: Energy Infrastructure Burns, Trump Wants $200 Billion For War, Energy Prices Spike, Mearsheimer Exposes US Disaster

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

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Philosophy, Society & Culture, News, Government, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Krystal and Saagar discuss energy infrastructure burning in the Middle East, Trump wants $200 billion for war, global energy price spike, John Mearsheimer exposes US disaster. 

 

Robert Pape: https://escalationtrap.substack.com/ 

John Mearsheimer: https://www.mearsheimer.com/ 

 

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0:04.1

Hey guys, Saga and Crystal here.

0:06.1

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0:41.2

Good morning, everybody. Happy Thursday. Have an amazing show for everybody today. What do we have Crystal? Another monster show. A lot, a lot, a lot going on. Israel and the U.S. massively escalating

0:47.3

the Iran War. Now energy infrastructures throughout the Middle East is on fire.

0:52.2

Predictably, the economy is tanking and oil prices are spiking,

0:55.5

so we'll get into all of that. John Mearsheimer is joining us this morning to break down his

0:59.9

view on what is happening and where things are headed. Tulsi Gabbard testifying yesterday,

1:05.6

pretty revealing in not a great way. Joe Kent, having just resigned, just at a bombshell interview with Tucker

1:12.8

Carlson, we will bring you all of the highlights of that, some absolutely earth-shattering revelations.

1:18.5

So a lot to break down there. And then Professor Pape is going to be back with us to explain where

1:24.1

we are now in the escalation trap. So truly a massive show today to get through.

1:29.8

That's right. Thank you to everybody who's been supporting us at breaking points.com. As of now,

1:34.4

the current plan is that I will be doing an interview with Joe Kent tomorrow. Obviously,

1:38.7

that's tentative and who knows, considering now that the Trump administration is potentially

1:42.3

trying to indict him, whether he's even able to do that. But as I said, that's current plan. And we're going to have a section on locals where we're going to post some suggested questions where you can suggest some if you would like. You can comment there and leave anything that you think you would like to get from Joe Kent. So please go ahead and do so to all of our premium subscribers. And if you want to participate in that and you can, breakingpoints.com. Thank you again to everybody who's supporting the show at this time for all of this incredible growth that you have given to us your trust in this immense and very, very difficult and dark time, I think, for the entire world. But yeah, Crystal, with that, what do we have? So the U.S. and Israel escalating massively

2:17.8

yesterday in the Iran War, we can put these images up on the screen. They struck Israel specifically,

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