And the Good evening. It's Thursday, August 1st. Welcome to a new episode of

System Update. Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern

exclusively here on rumble the free speech alternative to YouTube as you can see

tonight is a real episode of system update as evidenced by the fact that I am here and

Michael Tracy is not. Actually Michael Tracy is here for some reason no one really

quite understands why he's sort of working around I think we actually might need some sort of

restraining order or decree of deportation to actually finally get rid of him but since

he is here I'm gonna chat with him for just a little bit at the end of the show

for what would ordinarily be the after show but we're going to put it on the

live rumble stream but in all seriousness I think he did a great job the audience

seemed to really appreciate him but I nonetheless I'm glad to be back and I'm certain that you're

glad as well. So for tonight it seems as though one says this every other

year or so but the Middle East is really on the brink of a major escalation, a major regional war.

From the start of the US supported Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza back in October, a bombing

campaign now in its 10th full month. A major concern has always been that

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuahu actually seeks not only to destroy Gaza but to use

that conflict as a pretext for waging war on all of Israel's enemies in the region

starting with Hezbollah and the Houthis and then extending possibly and

most disastrously to Iran itself. We are not that far away from such a dangerous and possibly

apocalyptic scenario and whatever else is true this will not only be an

Israeli war but would also be an American war as well. We know this in part because all

Israeli wars become American wars, at least at the very least, to the extent that the

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