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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

4/15/26: Troop Surge To Iran, Dire Economic Warnings, JD Vance Begs Voters, Italy Clashes With Israel

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

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Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics, Philosophy

4.310.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Emily and Saagar discuss troops surged to Iran, dire economic warnings, JD Vance begs young voters, Italy clashes with Israel.


Lauren Conlin: https://x.com/conlin_lauren  

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim: https://x.com/academic_la 

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

 


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0:38.1

Good morning, everybody. Happy Wednesday. We have an amazing show for everybody today.

0:42.7

All right. Hit it up. There we go. Fascist. Oh, we almost put the arm in an interesting way.

0:47.3

The Roman, as Elon would say. Roman salute. Here, fascist points with the Sager and Emily.

0:52.9

Got to keep the arm down, right? You got to keep the volume down, man.

0:56.2

The volume? What? This is what it's all about, Emily. All right, we can find, remember, you know,

1:01.0

all of our predecessors, they would speak loudly and formally to command attention. All right,

1:05.9

giving the critics enough there. What are we starting with? What are we starting with? We have a

1:09.7

huge breaking news here, thousands of more troops that are headed to the Middle East. We added it in as of this morning, so we're going to do a little bit of mini block here at the top just to update everybody on the situation with Iran. We're also going to talk about inflation. That is by far our biggest story. We have the IMF, which is warning about rapid inflation, spreading across the

1:28.5

entire global economy. Gas prices, $4.11 a gallon here. Beef is going up. Fertilizer is drying

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