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🗓️ 11 July 2019
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0:00.0 | There's a little enclave of the UAE called Fujiwara, which is on the Indian ocean, the open |
0:06.9 | Indian ocean. And the UAE cleverly thinking Iran can cut off the straight-of-war moves due |
0:13.5 | north of this enclave, and thereby close the Gulf, built a pipeline between its territory |
0:22.0 | and this enclave of Fujiwara on the Indian ocean. And the thinking was obvious. This way, |
0:26.9 | the Iranians can't get us. We bypass their choke point at the straight-of-war moves. |
0:32.4 | So a few weeks ago, somebody very carefully without sinking a ship, without hurting a single |
0:38.8 | human being, disabled three of those tankers in port in Fujiwara. The US of course refused to get |
0:45.6 | the message or get any message. A bit later, somebody disabled two tankers on the open ocean |
0:53.9 | in the Indian ocean, far outside of Fujiwara. At first, they said those tankers were torpedoed and |
1:02.1 | everybody laughed because a torpedo impact can be noticed instantly. It's meant to break the ship |
1:08.4 | in half and sink it. This on the contrary hit the ship from the top and set it on fire, and the |
1:14.1 | captain of one of the ships said, we were hit from the sky by something that dropped an explosive |
1:19.4 | like, say, a drone. So that seems to me to be, okay, maybe it was Gulf of Tonkin, I don't know, |
1:27.8 | but it could just as easily be a smart and extremely restrained way of saying, you guys are not |
1:34.7 | thinking clearly. You're not thinking what we could do. And one of the, you know, |
1:39.2 | supposed Iranian provocations was they shot down a US drone. And that was one of my favorite |
1:44.2 | things is it was like, they shot down our drone. That drone was two weeks from retirement. |
1:50.8 | Francis Gary Power Corps. Millions of circuits died. They were dreaming their Danny Glover lives, |
1:59.0 | showing Mel Gibson the pictures of their boats when they retired. And all of a sudden they died. |
2:04.5 | Yeah, and the other amazing thing about that drone, 222 million dollars. |
2:09.6 | I'm hilarious. I'm hilarious. I always thought the drones would have a trouble |
2:13.9 | come competing with a piece of crap like the F 35 because you get four F 35s for the billion |
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