3/19/26 Larry Johnson on the Ongoing and Coming Failures in the US and Israel’s War with Iran

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Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Scott brings Larry Johnson back on the show three weeks after his last appearance where Johnson predicted the war with Iran hours before it kicked off. Scott and Johnson examine what’s happened, dig into who’s really calling the shots here, address some of the nonsensical talking points used to make the Iranians out as a unique evil and anticipate what the global consequences of this war will be. Discussed on the show: “The Failure of US and Israeli Air Defense” (Sonar21) Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and a former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. Follow his analysis at Sonar21. Audio cleaned up with the Podsworth app: https://podsworth.com Use code HORTON50 for 50% off your first order at Podsworth.com to clean up your voice recordings, sound like a pro, and also support the Scott Horton Show! For more on Scott's work: Check out The Libertarian Institute: https://www.libertarianinstitute.org Check out Scott's other show, Provoked, with Darryl Cooper https://youtube.com/@Provoked_Show Read Scott's books: Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/47jMtg7 (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com) Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/3tgMCdw Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/3HRufs0 Follow Scott on X @scotthortonshow And check out Scott’s full interview archives: https://scotthorton.org/all-interviews This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Incorporated https://rrbi.co Moon Does Artisan Coffee https://scotthorton.org/coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom https://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=1616 and Dissident Media https://dissidentmedia.com You can also support Scott’s work by making a one-time or recurring donation at https://scotthorton.org/donate/https://scotthortonshow.com or https://patreon.com/scotthortonshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen of the press have been less than honest, reporting to the American people, what's going on in this country?
0:11.0	Because the babies are making it.
0:13.0	We're dealing with Hitler Revisited.
0:15.0	This is the Scott Horton Show, Libertarian Foreign Policy, mostly. When the the president doesn't that means that it is
0:24.0	not only we're going to take out seven countries they're doing negotiate now end this war and
0:33.6	now here's your host, Scott Porton.
0:47.4	Okay, guys, on the line here, I've got the former CIA officer turned decent guy, Larry Johnson.
0:49.1	He's a good guy.
0:51.3	He writes at Sonar 21.
0:54.5	The CIA, they lie us into war.
0:58.5	Larry Johnson, he truths us out of war as best as he can anyway and analyzes all of the empire's shenanigans and wrongdoings
1:02.4	all around the world, all the time.
1:03.8	Sonar21.com.
1:04.9	Welcome back to the show, Larry.
1:05.9	How you doing?
1:06.5	I'm a recovering spook.
1:08.3	There you go.
1:09.0	Well, listen.
1:10.6	For shame on you, sir, because, you know, three weeks ago, you came on my show and you said
1:19.1	that there was a 90% chance that Donald Trump was going to attack Iran.
1:24.8	And then he attacked Iran like seven hours later. So, yeah, explain yourself.
1:30.7	Why did you think that the chance was only 90% when it was a short thing? Well, yeah. There's always a
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