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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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0:00.0 | Joe Biden, President of the United States, refers to Donald Trump as a sick fuck when he's in private. |
0:10.6 | And do you know what? |
0:12.5 | That's exactly what Donald Trump is. |
0:16.3 | What happened in American politics this week? |
0:19.5 | Let's look back. |
0:22.9 | Three American soldiers were killed in action in a tiny corner of Jordan at an American base that most Americans have never heard of, |
0:31.3 | called Tower 22. Dozens of American soldiers were injured when an Iranian missile slammed into their base, |
0:40.6 | launched by Iranian proxies. It is said, according to government sources, that President |
0:47.0 | Biden has decided on what the retaliation will be. The administration's goal is to restore deterrence without escalating the Middle |
0:58.0 | East conflict into an open regional war involving direct engagement between Iran and the United |
1:05.6 | States. So apparently the decision has been made to strike back at the Iranian proxies, |
1:11.9 | including Iranian soldiers operating in Syria and Iraq. |
1:17.8 | But we will not target Iranians in Iran. |
1:22.9 | The world is at a dangerous hour, as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin pointed out, |
1:28.5 | and the United States government has made clear it will not tolerate attacks on American |
1:35.1 | military personnel by Iran, Iranian proxies, or anyone else across the Middle East. |
1:42.9 | It's important to remember, the United States spends over $1 trillion a year on its defense. |
1:51.8 | Iran spends less than $10 billion. |
1:55.3 | Iran should be very careful in provoking the United States, because the United States remains, despite the idiocy of so |
2:05.1 | many of its political candidates, the world's overwhelmingly most powerful nation. It is the most |
2:12.8 | powerful economically, militarily. It is the most powerful entrepreneurially. Nobody wants war, |
2:23.1 | but it is also the lesson of history that weakness is what brings war. |
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