Closing Remarks and Upcoming Fundraisers

Hi, if you're watching this, I'm Malcolm Nancy and you're watching Black Man Spy , the US Iran attacks cast day one one, one hundred and twenty one days since the beginning of this debacle or at least since we've been counting, we may have started two days early . But this debacle has been going on for some time and it has changed back to the previous dynamic of forget the MOU, let's just attack each other . So we will get more into that. Hello from Quebec. And we have here with us Jacob Carzbo, Danish intelligence officer extraordinaire, wearing his Ukraine defense intelligence shirt, which one of these days we're going to do a Ukrainian one and we're going to wear all of our Guru shirts. Oh, by the way, let me let me show you something. I'll show you something I'm sure you guys haven't seen . You may have Ukrainian defense intelligence shirts , but Have you got one of these? Ah no, no, no, no, no , no . I just flashed that up there just because one let's just inform our viewers that I'm wearing it because there's been a declared a state of emergency for Crimea Fascists have declared a state of emergency in Crimea . It's news. I can't imagine what's going on. Maybe it's they're getting their ass es handed to them because I saw that there was a ten kilometer line out of Crimea to leave the country , right? Going back to Russia over the overland route, you cannot go by boat. You can only go on that route, coming out of Crimea, going to Malidapol, Mariupol , then up to Rustolf. No, that has been blocked and they owned no civilian traffic The Kurds Bridge, that was to pass that was the Kur ch Bridge . Wow , that bridge ain't going to last long either. When they feel enough civilians have left, they'll set that bridge. They'll try. They want to get as many Russians out as possible . Yeah . Well, I think it's awesome. Anything Ukraine does is awesome. And speaking of that before we start our Middle East chat, I am running two fundraisers today , principally because go fund me has made it clear they do not allow fundraisers for anything related to conflicts . So they cancelled a fundraiser that we had to raise laptops for a Ukrainian Army drone interceptor team. And even though it was defense, it was just laptops, it wasn't because it was weapons or anything . It's just anything related to war. They cancel it. Same thing with PayPal, PayPal will not allow you to buy anything related to weapons , but laptops, these laptops are used for mapping and all that. So the same way we use laptops here , right? So why do you? What did you just throw up there? Our Middle East geopolitical expert from Saudi Arabia . Watch the gay lion has this I should not I thought that that was from I thought that was from Iraq No No, no, it's from Devor Second . Oh my god , where's the one with the fist? It's supposed to have the fight fight, fight fist on the top. They don't suppose So this is the Trump triumph arch . Yeah . And this is Trump Timo Arch Timo art Tima One of them is one of them is the Arcta Triolf . The other is the Arctic Timu . The Arctic Timu Trump . Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah , we're obviously having way too much fun . So as we spiral up there, I'm actually making a coffee. I have an I move the espresso machine automated espresso machine next to my desk now. I mean, I'm not playing games anymore. What I need my four six double espresso to chill out from all the crazy shit that's going on . It's going to be amazing. Somebody said wait till Banksy does a takeoff of that arch . I was just in London and I have photographs of Banksy 's leader with the flag in his face walking off a cliff . And that 's down next to the Crimea War statue just off Paul Maul next to next to a fowler's country clothier. Very nice. But yeah, I can't wait till somebody gets ahold of that. It'll be like a giant dildo on top, right Big Hawkin Dildo . Oh, actually, or a tiny little mushroom one . Somebody wants to see a picture of that. Actually, I will show you a picture of that because I took it at the Ukrainian M a couple of weeks ago when I was in London and somebody goes, Hey, look, the that's the Banksy statue that's there. And you know, you know how Banksy is you don,'t know where anything is. He just quietly raised that statue of the leader with the flag in his face. So if you give me one second , I can get that out for you , but pretty, pretty funny , how he seems to have his , how can I put it his pulse on the Times ? And let me see London. There's Bletchley Park . And I have a substack special that I'm coming up with a black man spy special on where I went to go visit the sites of some of the women of the special operations executive . And here it is . I will show you this . This is the Banksy statue of the leader who has the flag. It's about blind patriotism is what it really is about. But if you see it , the leader is there, but his foot is going off the edge of a cliff . And it's great. I mean, it's really great example of blind patriotism . And you know, but it was Ukraine Day. And this statue off to the rear is the Crimea War Memorial for when the British did the charge of the light brigade and got wiped out in Crimea . So they celebrate disasters with great statues . It's just the nature of the English never say die mindset . But that being said , good morning. Roger, what kind of coffee mug are you rocking? Because I have to make an espresso. So I need a moment. There you go. I got my colorful china . Is it China? Yes . China . Geiner . Get you China . And this is the an movement, Mug . You will peace safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportional to the dangers which threaten it. Man , tell me about it. I got a country full of dangers that threaten it My God We need to get into gear . Yeah , well we shall see. All right. Battle rattle . Battle rattle, that is fuck . My God, look at that. I made a mistake . I just made a perfect espresso and forgot to put the cup under it. Oh no , I gotta make another one . This is a tragedy I mean, how is my day ? How is my day going to go without my third cup of espresso here this morning ? Meanwhile, we're up to one thousand locked on. So what are you trying to tell me? What are you trying to tell me? Trying to tell us to get us to fireway. You know, I got enough people from the Middle East . All right, yes. Good morning , day one hundred and twenty one. Somebody recommended yesterday that I have a section of the show called the Memorandum of Understanding Accountability Section and this be where we get to in a short summary say who is accounting who is maintaining the memorandum of understanding violations yesterday the Un,ited States zero Iran won Israel two . So that's the summary of that. We will get into that, but first, the significant activity of the day , the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Cor sort of the way we warned yesterday that Iran might send a message that using the southern portion of the Omani U. S. Navy Omani traffic separation scheme this white red hit Yeah might result in them making a demonstration occurred yesterday by yesterday afternoon a few hours after the show , the Iranians pretty much made it clear that they weren't going to tolerate vessels sneaking out through the southern route. They attacked with some form of cruise missile , a merchant ship off of Oman. It is a Singapore flagged container ship. I will bring a picture of it up. It was from the evergreen line, the bridge. Now this is interesting. This is a container ship full of containers , but the missile seeker was sensitive enough or was optically guided to hit the bridge where they steer the ship directly. Nobody was killed, nobody was seriously injured. The ship was not abandoned, but the Iranians made their point. We suspect that it was a loitering munition . That's a drone that's fired, the drone flies circles, it hunts a target, and then when the drone operator is ready to attack, he can lock onto a certain part of the ship. It'll go down and hit it. And any ship missile would have hit the hull at the waterline , a cruise missile would have hit it where containers are because it goes for the biggest section of the ship . But only a drone loitering drone can do a precision hit on the bridge , which of course got the attention of the bridge crew and surprise when your when all the windows explode around you , that is not good. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Office says it occurred seven point five miles north , northeast of sorry, southeast of Daliit, which is near Cork fakan in the northeastern corner of the United of Oman . If you go up, up, a little more to the right, right there right there, that's where it occurred. And of course, it wasn't hard for the Iranians to send a missile across because it's only about twenty five miles . So the Iranians immediately put out a notice that we told you only Only go dangerous through the approved yes it's dangerous out there . Something could happen to you, right? This is literally mafia boss extortion . That's a nice container ship you got there. It be awful sad if something happened to it like a shrill through the bridge. I'm not saying the drones fly through pridge . I'm just saying as Chris Chap aro Chapar says , It's unhealthy . Things can happen in that investigation . You know? We told you, we told you. We told you so . So the Iranians struck this vessel, let me see if I can bring up some imagery of it . But as we said , we told you so and I don't like playing the I told listen to me, I'm such a liar. I love playing the I told me so gay . I love it, right? That is the intelligence. That is the intelligence community's version of having of having an orgasm, right? Someone someone could go gee , why is Iran still attacking when there's a ceasefire , when Iran is sitting down with the United States still figuring things out . It's explicitly because Iran is still negotiating with the United States . They need to make sure that they and only they have the upper hand when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz the Strait of Hormuz is the exact thing that gave Iran the upper hand on the United States when it comes to the swar . So when their own says don't cross the strait from this location and you disobey and Iran ignores that shows to the U. S. collapsed. Iran no longer can control the strait and we should even ignore the peace talks and we should step on the Iranians. The Iranians at that point go hell no to the no , we're gonna hit any ship that doesn't follow our order the way we want them to follow the order. So in the meantime , this is gonna keep happening. If you think about it, the Iranians were not lying. The straight of Home Moz is open so long as you use the Iranian Revolutionary Guard multipass traffic separation scheme, right ? Anything other than that could yield danger ous activities which you may not appreciate . So I'm not mistaken . The MOU says that passage can be will be negotiated Iran and Mohamman. You don't see the US Navy involved in that Iranians say well this has been done without our consent . So it violates part number five . Halas . And you know, you know, I've heard that it's very dangerous out there. I mean things come for it could be seagulls , it could be pelicans. All sorts of things fly into ships . Yeah . Exactly. Parmigan especially in the southern route. Especially that southern crowd. Persian hawks , I mean it's full of it's full of dangers and you know, freaking the kraken could come out. You never know. So anyway, this is part of the evergreen line ,apore Sing flagged vessel, which may have been struck in the Strait of Hormuz . The IRGC has announced with the United States, JD Vance actually made this announcement that the United States and Iran will be having a deconfliction cell and that the United States and Iran open direct communications between the IRGC headquarters and the U. S. Central Command . I mean so I want you to think about I want you to think about this for one second. If Barack Obama ever said 're, going We to start communicating directly with the Iranians so that these attacks don't keep happening . They would have peached him on the spot immediately, right? I really have to get that song from this Miller show if the black guy terror terrorist Fox News would come at our black terrorist president who 's correct Hussein's father is appointed being elected as president all of a sudden is working with the Iranians . No, no, he's a believer . They would have said he was IRGC . They would have said Barack Hussein Obama an IRGC agent. Look, he even calls them . This is John Time . And tonight on Israeli channel fourteen 's propaganda channel, it'll be JD Hussein's Vance JD Hussein Vance . Yeah, I guess it will be . Well , well , Israel is so down on the on the Trump administration that there's not a lot you could do. They're pretty down Trump these days. It is very tragic. That being said, let's keep moving on. So there will be an IRGCD confliction channel. At one point the talk was, I'm not joking . The initial talk was to station an IR DC officer Ud Base in Qatar on the US base so he could call up his home boys and go, hey, Mama, Hussein, Hussein. And they'll go, Oh my God, who's saying'?s He calling Obama . And yeah, stop all those attacks, okay? But it's obviously not going Somebody says, can Trump coins still be used for multipass fees? Yes , yes. The Iranians announced that almost four months ago , they accept Trump coin . Not a joke. They accept , right? The coin , what is it Liberty, Financial or whatever , USB Trump coin. Yeah. You can pay your two million dollar environmental fee and it gives you access to all IRGC perks that's preferred currency . They love to rub it in . If you can , you get you get free Turkish coffee at the Kashem Island Larak Island checkp oint you can have they'll have a tray of Turkish delight that will be served with your coffee. They will give you your multipath. They know they give you these temporary multipass that you print from your own computer. No, they will give you your physical IRGC multipath. So you can go multipath and a complimentary IRGC paramount membership . Somebody says at a two hundred fifty and dollars bill. Okay . That being said, most of my information today , one thing that we need to do to talk about is Iran has actually triangulated its proxies. And I don't actually like to use the word proxy . A proxy means that you're just a puppeteer for them and they fill in for you. These people are independent ethnic entities with their own sheer religion , right? That they believe in. So I like to refer to them as co religionists . And they're doing this, they're fighting on behalf of Iran because they are co religious. They're Shia Muslims . The Houthis have threatened Israel's future or claimed presence in Somaliland. Okay, for those of you who haven't seen it , let me I'll bring up the mountain, Jacob. Somali land is an awesome view of northwest Somali. Oh yeah, there you go. You're awesome at this. There's Hagesa in . The main port is Berbara . So it's this part up there. Yeah, let me see if I like that. Yeah, as a matter of fact, you know what? Ever since you've mentioned it, now I see Mocha everywhere . I'm like, Mocha, God, I spent a lot of time up there . Yemen, been to Aiden, been to all these places. I mean, it's like where the hell? How did I miss Luka ? Well, here it is . So as Jacob was saying, this is more of a zoom map . This area north , the northern part of Somalia here is an independent nation called Somali Land. There you go. His map is much better. Mine is a detailed map. This is Somali Land. As he said, the Port Berber a is their major sea port leading out into the Gulf of Aden , and then their capital is here at Hard isa . And we talked about this a couple of months ago because the Egyptians had decided they were going to put a billion dollars into essentially buying the port of Berbera and all the accessways into it, rehabilitate that port into a super modern port. The reason that that's significant is Egypt and Ethiopia are having beef right now over a giant dam Ethiopia built that is cutting off water to the nile . And a year ago when I went I did my Egyptian special air service long range desert group trip , I went down to Lake Nasser and you could physically see Lake N asser was one meter less than it usually was. You can see the lines on it that the lake was really getting low. And the Egyptians down there were talking war like flying over to Ethiopia . They're going they're threatening to strike the den . I'm saying they were talking about flying over to Ethiopia with a massive U. S. French built Egyptian air force and bombing that damn out of existence . And you know, I mean everybody from the taxi drivers to, you know, from the taxi drivers to the tour guides were big mad because Lake Nasser is a false lake . It's a reservoir which leads up to they they damned it off. They dammed it off in the nineteen fifties with Russian help and to save Abu Simbal , which I will show you right now, they had to cut up this ancient ancient Egyptian temple cut it up and bring it up a hundred meters and rebuild it , rebuild Abu Simbal above the line of where this place was. And this is , you know , down there. This is the southern most part of Egypt , that temple is magnificent, by the way, really utterly amazing. Everything in there was laser cut with an extremely fine pencil, not even pencil finish. Laser thin wire numbered and reconstructed to the point where you can't even see the lines, right? My problem is somebody says they've been there. Who said they're Terry Wonder said that she's been to Abu Similar. He's been to Abu Simbal. I went there and I didn't like it. I went and it's a hall. I mean, it's you got to drive two hours from Aswan and it takes you a while to get to Aswan and you could fly down there , but when you get there they've paved everything so that you feel like you're at Disneyland ntil. U you are inside that temple, you feel like you're a Disneyland . You know, I was like, well, this place sucks. Oh, did I mention Chinese influencers all doing hand gestures to hold up the temple in their hands and wearing flowing white robes. I was like, okay, Abu Simbal sucks . But the point is this, the Egyptians like Naser was going to consume Abu Simbal. So they raised Abu Simbal up and now Lake Nasser is the reservoir for the Aswan Dam, the Grand Aswan Dam that feeds the Nile River . Now we're going to tell you all of this because the Houthi situation is deeply intertwined with this. This is Lake Naser here pump, pump, pump sorry . And Lake Nasser is huge . It's huge. It's like, I think all in all, it's like the largest man made lake in the world. It's like twenty miles long , but it is now going down because of this Ethiopian dam that's at the head of the Nile . And the Egyptians were, I'm not joking a year ago, they were talking war , you know, war between Ethiopia and Egypt. Now, why is this significant? Because in relation to what we were talking about today , the Egyptians thought, oh, we don't have to go to war with Ethiopians . We'll just cut off their ability to have all trade with the world . So port for everything was the Somali land port of Ververa . And it was going through Hagesa to the road Ethiopia. Ethiopia has no sea access itself . It's landlocked . It's landlocked after Eritrea became independent. Yes, Ereata had a sob , right? Full disclosure. I've been to a sob port. It's a shit hole. But yeah, it is still trace . You know , but Ethiopia only had Berberta port , now two entities have moved into Berberta port. One is the Egyptians in a massive emirates backed billion dollar revamp of the port , right? Why did they do it to Ethiopia? Because Ethiopia is cutting off the water to Egypt . And now they're going to say to Ethiopia , you increase the flow of water or we just shut you off from the rest of the world period. That's the way it's gonna be. If you then go to Adizab a or go around the highlands , Ethiopia that are magnificent , you know , basically they see all the Egyptians and the Sudanese as just one big horde of Islamists, you know ? It's just it's just terrible and the same with the Somalis. So they feel like they're surrounded by Islamists. So they're like, okay, let's just fight this war, you know? They really and don't forget that Ethiopia almost a one hundred percent Christian nation . That's right . Except down here coped. Yeah Down there. That's that's that's nobody lives down there except for Somali pirates. Not Somalipirates some jihadis and that place is, you know , that is a barren piece of the earth. Aromo Aramo Aromos, right? Aromo . So anyway, just full disclosure . Ethiopian food is my favorite food on this planet. I can eat one at any time. Dota nigh left, right up, down center Get your daughter what daughter what kibbs , you know, all these things. Shrimp alets . I'm hungry now. Malcolm . You've gone on about this. So what is the significance of this ? This is that Israel has announced that they are making an alliance with Somaliland are intending to build and is raeli naval base. This is the Indian Ocean, by the way. It's the Gulf of AN, but it's outside of the Red Sea. And if they moved the Egyptian , the Israeli Navy to that base in Barbara , which is interesting somebody says that I buy any black velvet wall paintings? No . So this would give Israel a massive ability to project force the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf and cut the Red Sea off at the other end. Well, the Houthis have something to say about that. Can you point out to where Houthi land is in relation to Somali land? There's a houthis up there on the across the corner on the other side of the strait. Yeah. The Houthis said they are feeling threatened by Israel's presence. And if Israel establishes a base there, they the Houthis will fucking level it and they have the cap acity to level it I don't expect to see the Israelis moving down five thousand iron domes and ballistic missile patriot batteries down there even though the US has bases in Djibouti, so does China , but they actually have the ability and the French and the French at Lemonier , the French Foreign Legion battalion is down there they could actually do this . So they are warning the Israelis , you know, any visible pres ence of Israel in Berbara means war between the Houthis and Somaliland , that will be interesting. Malcolm, funny, you should mention it because some of viewers think , why what is Somaliland doing with the Israelis? The thing Somaliland wants recognition they are not recognized recognized as a state . They've broken off from Somalia El Malta they are a de facto sovereign state , but no one recognizes them and they're pissed. And that's why the Israelis think okay , but then we can , you know, promise the Somali land us something . Yeah . I strongly recommend you guys to take a second and read my article yesterday specifically talk about talk about Somaliland and Somalia and how Gulf States are not very much interested in recognizing Somaliland specifically because of of several things one Somaliland is backed by the UAE and the UAE and Slaud are not doing so hot at the moment . This is a UA Egyptian alliance there . The Egyptians and the Emiratis have, let me explain to you where the Egyptians and the Emiratis have been carrying out this sort of projection of power. When I was in Libya in twenty eleven , full disclosure, I was giving I was I can't tell you who was working for, but it was the country I was living in, which had a city named Abu Dhabi. Initially , the people that were carrying out the rebellion was a former Libyan general named Abu Baker Yunis , head of the interior ministry. Well , there was a split. The Egyptians and the Emiratis , about a third of the way through the revolution decided to back another guy who I had some horrible run ins in nineteen eighty five when he was abandoned in Ch ad named Khalifa Haft . And let me explain to you this story. When I was in Bengazi, when I was in Bengazi, Colonel Haftar was the commander of the Libyan garrison in Wadidun in Central Chad at Fale Largo. Now how do I know all these things? I don't know. I just showed up there. But they all got captured, right by a French Chad ian offensive and Haftar was supposed to go back to Libya, but Gaddafi said, There's no Libyans in Chad . We don't want anybody back. There's nobody there. Haftar ended up in Northern Virginia in a town called Mc Clean , which is next to a town called Langley . And he he ended up doing activities that were against the Gaddafi government. So when the rebellion came back, boom, Halifahftar shows back up in Bengazi at the at the Feduk Hotel or whatever it was where the Libyan National Transitional Council was . And so did Khalifa, so did Abu Bakr Yunus, who was recognized as the commander of the rebellion . So a lot of stuff was going on there. All I know is I got a picture of one of the two of them, right? Aftar because people told me you were in Chad in nineteen eighty five. Don't tell Alifa Avatar Still mad about that . This ends chapter eight of my memoir, by the way, about how I had to avoid Al i Haftar. And they all knew I was the American guy that was working there. And then one day, a couple of weeks later, after I left Libya, Abu Baker Eunice woke up with machine gun bullets all through him by two guards, two officers from Alifah Haftar . Alif tar announced his alliance with Libya Egypt and the United Arab Emirates Yeah, right? And then Turkey announced its alliance with the transitional council opposite against Egypt and the United Arab Emirates , and these were these countries, Turkey versus Egypt United Arab Emirates. What did the Emiratis do? They bought in PMC Wagner Russian mercenaries and what did Turkey do set weapons and equipment to kick the ass of PMC Wagner These countries are all fighting for regional power. So when Watcha makes a statement like you did the other day, watch about see the United States kicked out of Qatar, but the Turks come in to counterbalance the Emiratis . This is real And so when we see the Emirates in Israel aligning in Somali land , who do you think's gonna come in on the side of the Ethiopians ? Fun so Several . And they have also been added in Somalia proper . So they have the charming already . The Training Army. Yeah, yeah, they're supposed to be a training force Oh my god for all of the listeners. The first Islamic heijra, the first Islamic immigration before the prophet migrated was to Ethiopia. Ethiopia . Yeah. Yes. King of Ethiopia, a Christian who was known for his trust and known for its safety and security , and he promised to protect the Muslims if they migrated there. And there was a good lots of big number of Muslims that migrated there. By the way, if you if you guys ever want to see the only authorized story of the Prophet Muhammad and how by the way, and a delegation from Ethiopia comes to Mecca , right? To show them that they are equals in terms of their belief in Christianity and Islam at that time were equal. They believed in Jesus prophet, all of that stuff. But Anthony Quinn in Muhammad Messenger of God , the only film the Saudis have ever authorized to depict the birth of Islam in the history of the foundings of Islam. And who was Anthony Quinn in that was like his uncle , I believe, but a good film considering Anthony Quinn was Greek and a cast and a Christian. So but the Saudis bought him in f.il Thism was made at the time around Lawrence of Arabia . And it's a great film. I mean, to the point where I remember everything about that film, which we were shown in cultural intelligence class Defense Language Institute, right? Why is somebody talking about Churchill fighting in Amderman? That's Sudan . Yeah . And that's Sudan . This proxy war that we've been going over now is also what's behind what's going on in Sudan now. But we'll leave that for some other day. Yeah, we need to have a special about the fighting that's going on in Sudan because one , as you guys know, I am am anateur historian of the SAS and the Long Range Desert Group origins in World War two . There was a Sudanese force that was like the Long Range Desert Patrol, used the same Chevy Trum , carried out operations in southern Libya, rarely spoken. And I was trying this Civil War broke out to get to the Sudanese military historian in their museum , which at this point, I could probably just go there and buy those old trucks for twenty dollars because there's a civil war going on. They're probably being used with canny aircraft guns in the back , right? These nineteen forty two Chevy trucks . So but the reason we're having this really round the world discussion is because we're talking about how states like the Emirates , Israel, Turkey , Egypt are now projecting power across the region to end North Africa. This is East Africa to places they shouldn't even be. Don't forget, the Emirates in Saudi Arabia invaded Yemen and got their asses kicked . I'm sorry. I mean, got their asses kicked by guys with flip flops the Iranians are projecting power in Europe . Absolutely. That's correct. They succeeded unfortunately. Yeah. Yes. And the Houthis are entrenched the Saudis and the Marathis aren't seasoned fighters . The Houthis have been fighting tribal wars and been fighting and civil wars in Yemen for a while . Hope the Saudis don't know how to fight guerrilla wars . In fact , that's the sole reason they wanted the United States to fight the war against Saddam Hussein. It's because when Oslama biladen showed up in front of Prince Abdullah before he was king. He literally might have a list of fighters that are ready to come and show up and fight Saddam Hussein. He was talking about Al Qaeda . And he sorry about Al Qaeda . Yeah, hes fired out . The king at the crowd the crown prince at the time was looked at him and said, Thank you for the offer the offer and then called them except no, thank you. Amen. Thank you As much as soldiers you want will pay how much you want. It doesn't matter. The Saudis don't know how to fight guerrilla wars . Yeah. Yeah, they don't. They barely know how to fight their wars. By the way, I made a mistake . The old title used to be called there's a movie called Mohammed Messenger of God from nineteen twenty fifteen. That's not the film. This one's from nineteen seventy three, I think, and it's called Elishada, right ? The message . And this is the story of the birth of Islam. This is the only film the Saudis have ever endorsed. And if you want to learn about how Islam came about and it shows the delegation that is set to Ethiopia , right? And Ethiopia is a Christian nation , right ? And I find it funny that Trump is backing is probably going to back Israel and Egypt that's in this story , but not back the Christian nation of Ethiopia. Not their kind of Christians, I guess, which is funny cons,idering Ethiopians run, Ethiopians and Nigerians run Washington DC . Yeah, not a joke. They're everywhere. Best restaurants in the city though. I love Ethiopian food. I want tips . So cultural intelligence lesson for all of you, right? This is this is why we talk about these things because it's important for you to know that. Okay, let's set Somaliland aside . Let's go to the back to the MOU accounting , Lebanon There has been combat in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah clashed yesterday in a place called Beit Hanoon in southern Lebanon near the Israeli border. An Israeli unit in near Nebateah was advancing towards the Nebate Hills, the Ali Al I call it the Ali Altar Mountain ware hardcore mountain complex where they believe according to Israeli intelligence, only thirty Hezbollah defenders are still with in that tunnel complex. The Israelis, I told you they were out to clear that mountain. They are. They're quietly clearing it They were hit with an IED. I've heard two different stories. I've heard one that it was a drone. I heard another that it was a guy with a hand grenade . But it wounded an Israeli army captain and now the Israelis are pounding it with airstrikes and artillery . What I'd tell you about one attack , one hand grenade can lead to twenty four hours of the Israeli Air Force dropping three hundred vomits on you and hours and hours of artillery. And that's what 's going on. That being said , they have the clashes are in and out, they are not continuous . And the United States is having talks, again, peace talks with Israel and Lebanon in Washington . However, they are not going anywhere. They are stalled over the wording of a memorandum of understanding. Tell me if this sounds familiar . And one of the components is the Israelis want the Lebanese army to come in and displace Hezbollah. We keep talking about that. The Lebanese Army is a Rinky Dink Ragtag force. Yes, Jacob . No, but it's just to say why you were saying that this is not going anywhere and it's not going anywhere because Israel is still ordering people to clear southern Lebanon. This is a map of the formerly unif orm area . And as Malcolm was saying, yeah, the Israelis are saying, well, it's the Lebanese army that needs to take over . Meanwhile , the French and the Italians have said , well post uniform , it should be a proper force assisting the Lebanese armed forces . So there could be a European force also to force the Israelis on the defensive. So we'll see how the extremist fringe of the Israeli government how they handle it . Well, as of sixteen minutes ago, Israel says they have killed Southern and Southern Lebanon. Yeah, we can . And just twenty , forty minutes ago, they were dropping you know, the what do you call it when you drop those file papers from the sky? Oh leaflets . Leaflets. Leaflets. They were leaflets in leaflets . Yeah ., ye Yeahah . The Lebanese army ain't particularly advanced, okay? I mean these guys, I'm going to show you, they're still driving M sixty and M for forty eight tanks from the Vietnam War era , right? Their most capable tank, sorry about this. Their most capable tank is the Russian T fifty five . I mean this is an ancient force . They shouldn't be operating any of this equipment. It is not capable of doing anything. They did get some Bradley U. S. Bradley Infantry Fighting vehicles. The United States did introduce a new camouflage for their cool last Lebanese army uniforms , but they don't have the capacity to defend themselves much less go against Hezbollah. Isbollah has advanced anti tank missiles. We now see Hezbollah kicking the ass of the Israeli Army with dron es . So if that's the case, what is ten or ten or twenty Bratley infantry fighting vehicles going to do that the Israeli Army can't do , right ? Get killed. That's what you can do. All right. The Israeli army is good at not getting killed. The Lebanese army does not have the capability to fill in. Even though, like we said, Unifil, which is the old United Nations forces in Lebanon , has now their mandate ran out this year, I believe it was February . Now the French and other forces are saying. How old are those photos? Somebody says, this photo right here of the Bradle y is I think that's last year . These photos of the T seventy two's , I'm going to show you something the T fifty five's , this isn't all this isn't old. These are when their tanks were fighting the Islamic State for Tripoli Lebanon . That one's two thousand seven, but this is their inventory. That's all they have it in their inventory Northern Lebanon up north in Lebanon when ISIS tried to seize tripoli Lebanon. And you know, Beirut is there, triboli up here . Yeah. Yeah. So this we just don't supply them now. Are we going to send in three thousand US trainers from our training brigade into Lebanon to train the Lebanese army? No, are we going to suddenly drop five hundred Bradleys, you know, to turn them into a small Ukrainian army brigade? No, we're cheap. Trump's cheap, even though his new son in law is Lebanese did make money there's another there's another angle on this as well. These allies don't want the Lebanese armed forces to be strong yes . So, you know, they're still also arguing but okay, we demand that they disarm Hezbollah, but we don't want them to be too strong. So it's not as if we can just say let's let's just build a one heck of an army here because the Israelis don't want it. The Israelis don't want the Lebanese army strong because they're afraid the country could fall to Hezbollah and all of those Bradley Infantry fighting vehicles are now hisbullah army forces and it's not a j ump. They want them weak . So they need them weak It's a conundrum. That being said, the last thing that we have to talk about, there's two things . The Lebanese army has refused to enter any town that the IDF is in. They don't trust them. Why don't they trust them? Because when the last time their senior battle commander sat when met with the Israelis, the truck turned around, went down the road and exploded when an Israeli he llfire missile blew it up. So not particularly trusting the Israelis will work on their side . I think the Israelis see anyone who's capable, they kill them. It's a good strategy, but you know , worked in the movie Don't give you a peace though. Doesn't give you a peace . Okay, last item before we go on to questions and talk about tactic. It's a good tactic, but not a not good strategy . Not a good strategy . Okay , we're still here. We have fifty three questions or comments in there. Hey, back to twenty eighteen . The Israelis claim that they did this amazing super duper secret operation . Yose Cohen, who is the former director of the Mosad, according to Wachahat Ali, my former boss . I was never in the Mossad I don't take Hasabara money. I'm going to ram that guy every day until he apologizes, but you know, he's a jerk . So or until I get a Mos ad black, all right. So any of you, you know, can get the the brother of hookup full tour in a Musad flower . That's the only way I'm ever going to admit I was in the Mossad Fuck stupid. Anyway, in twenty eighteen , Israel figured out where Iran was keeping all of its nuclear secrets in a warehouse in downtown Tehran that was full of safes. They called it their nuclear architect. In twenty eighteen, Israelis commandos and secret agents of the Losad roke into this warehouse using acetylene torches , cut off all the locks and took out an entire treasure trove of material. At least that's what they keep telling the United States government. They had plans for the Libyan bomb program, letters written from the various leaders, the guys that they assassinated. It'd be a great story. I believe it. I believe about half of it. But we can't verify the other half of it. However, there's a story out that Yosi Cohen has now said they trained for that mission by building full scale mockup of that site in a warehouse in Africa somewhere . And the big guessing game is where in Africa is it? I'm looking at you Somaliland and you know, the Mosa practiced on it, did drills, the entire warehouse had a mock ofu thep actual place built inside the warehouse. So we do that all the time. The bin Laden raid, we had Bin Laden's headquarters built inside or his house, built inside of a warehouse that guys Delta Force or sorry Seal Team six operators could actually fly into and fastrope on. So it's not an unknown thing. But they are saying that this is where they got the research archive . The only reason that all of that information ended wasn't because the Obama administration, it's because Trump tore up the JCPOA and all of that material that the Iraqis, I'm certain had copies of went towards making sixty percent enriched uranium. So if the Israelis had all the secrets, Trump ruined it being shown this information and then tearing up the JCPLA and that look where we are. So you guys have anything we didn't discuss, we should talk about today before we get to questions The Venezuela please watch Jacob . I think well, just to underline that also in addition to the to these Singapore containers ship being shot at , the Iranians afterwards turned back three oil tankers that were heading for the same southern route . So the Southern route is closed by fall intents and purposes now. Well, you know what? It's usually this time of year it's very hot in the SOH . We usually get a good level of dust over the water , but it's generally clear this is June, right ? You're talking forty degrees Celsius out there with reflection on the water . The only place on this planet I, ever got sunburn , right? Actual peeling of the skin off my nose. We refer to this as exposure When you get that , this is as we used to say, the IRG C votes are going to come out today and you know what they say, sun's out, guns out, time to get the votes, you know , time to turn the tankers back . So these are things that are important. So let's take a look at this . Some of the questions here. Malcolm from RevCEV, the etymologist, Malcolm, how does this end ? It ends when the United States starts paying up a boatload of money. That's pretty much how it's going to end here. What do you guys think? Yeah , yeah Trump doesn't want war and the Iranians know he doesn't want war . So they'll keep putting pressure on. They'll keep expanding their their influence .'ll They keep doing a mafia shake down on Oman and the other Gulf monarchies . And yeah, that's that's it. Here's what Trump has done. He has enabled one of the Middle Eastern biggest bullies to become a regional superpower . And that alone is a nightmare for everyone involved, for their GCC , for neighboring countries and everyone . The second part is that have no control over the strait, we have no control over Israel . We have no control over the Lebanese borders and that is going to have a nightmare for the rest of us . As long as we don't have that pig out , we will be stuck. It has an election coming up N.etanyahu seems he's only staying in power so he doesn't go get thrown the courts for his corruption . The people who are running against Netanyahu are asking for more extrem far right actions . I'm not seeing this ending anytime soon unless really Trump exerts some actual pressure on the Israelis . And as Section two nineteen continues to pass and as Section fourteen seventeen and the Senate is passing that stands to that's wanting to merge the . int S.elligence with the Israeli intelligence corroding the U. S. sovereignty for strategic decision making . We're only going to get into a worse territory than this. And I really think that we need to have a special episode specifically designed for seventeen fourteen seventeen and section two nineteen. You wrote a good article about that. I would like to do a special subscri bers only to clear that up to sit down and talk about it. I'm not sure if it's at the level that we think, but considering the enormous amount of pushback that the Trump administration is getting on this. I don't know whether it's going to pass, but you know, they're calling it a defense part of the defense appropriations. They've made some modifications . But to the people who are really supporting this , they like the idea of this merger of the Israeli Army in the US Army , you know ? Somebody says sure he didn't go after Malcolm. Malcolm went after him. Somebody says Surfie didn't go after Malcolm, Malcolm went after him. I'm going to tell you guys the whole genesis of the Wajada . During the two thousand seven massacre in Israel , the world split into two camps, pro Palestine camp, pro Israel camp . I was in the middle in the counter terrorism camp. And I had a tweet that was pinned for almost a year at the top of my Twitter feed that said , You're looking at this as either pro Palestine or you're looking at this pro Israel. I look at as counter terrorism. And what I saw was I saw a thousand terrorists storm into Israel and mass murder everyone they saw. Then I went to Israel to the sites to see that, yeah, that's exactly what happened . However , what happened after that , which is the Israeli Army fighting his Hamas, I wrote whole substance on this. The strategy of Hamas was to get Israel to invade Gaza , right? Yeah . And as they what's that old North Vietnamese strategy of hold them by the belt . They wanted to fight within Gaza at the one hundred meter or less level . And a lot of people got killed and a boat load of civilians got killed. But a lot of pundits in the United States and I had some fights with some big ones. I had a professor at I had a professor at what was it Georgetown who wrote a book on Islamic white guy , right? Wrote a book on , you know, is you know, anti Islamism in the United States . And this guy just straight up called me an anti Muslim, a Muslim hater. And I called his ass out straight onto I go I said when I'm done here after I won if I ever see you on the street I'm going to kick your ass two . I'm not joking. This is what I was saying to people at that time. I will physically have it out with you, but two, you will apologize. I never said any of that shit. You're a liar. And the big problem with liberals, not liberals, right? I'm a liberal now , with a lot of people in that camp that were pro that were coming off as pro Hamas , right? They said they were for the Palestinian people, but would not chastise a terrorist group that caused the death of one thousand seven hundred people , right? Some marriage executed them . These guys got so angry that their common sense sort of went out the window. I have zero tolerance with people that don't. And the terrorist groups that killed a lot of Palestinians when they took power. They weren't in two thousand six and seven. Yeah . Bro, they were executing Palestinians during the Israeli invasion. So I'm for the I'm for the Palestinian people , right? I'm for the Israeli people. I am not for Hamas , all right, and I am definitely not for the way that that war was waged, killing all those civilians. It's without honor, right? And I learned to fight in an armed force that relatively until just recently , maintained that we had laws, we had orders. We were not person moving was not the standard , right? But guys like Wajihat, Ali goes, Malcolm Nance went after me and I thought he was deranged. I thought he was mentally ill. You know, you actually said I was pathologic. You know what, I say to that, go fuck yourself. All right, I'm an old man. I got way too much. I'm still talking to him because I'm still pissed about this. Because he said it to my friend Joy Reed, the woman who was at my wife's deathbed, the woman who escorted me at my wife's funeral, right ? And first off, if you're a Palestinian, you have a little more credibility to talk to me, but you were born in San Francisco and you're South Asian . Okay , I worked that region and risk my life for decades . Risk my life for a decade. Levantine dialect, Palestinian, Syrian dialect, Arabic the first thing I ever learned. Right? So been there, done that, had the suicide bombings , all right? But to come back and go, oh, he's Hasabara. He's paid by the they don't have to pay me just pay my cab at the Sylvia Cafe in Yaffle and become a paid subscriber on SUBSTACK or become a paid subscriber on Substack. Seven dollars a month, you can actually get all of my analysis That's a good one. I'm gonna make up a certificate, right? That says that Mossad is paying me seven thousand Forgetting all these brilliant ideas and for the foresight , for the point for the foresight. The point is as intelligence professionals , I don't have time to play your silly political games, right? And I was off I hated the free Palestine movement in the United States. Here's why . I saw that they were going to destroy American democracy. His Hamas technically ended American democracy in the United States . Those fucking stupid ass college students and everybody who were shutting down university campuses, you caused the election of Trump. And the worst part was when they started attacking African Americans , right? They were physically attacking Democratic party leaders going into these things. And I was like, We're going to end democracy because of a Middle East terrorist group. But let me tell you something. We're fighting back now. And let me tell you how effective Hamas is their shit force. I have three of their flags. I have Palestinian, Islamic Jihad, Hamas , the Al Quts force, and the Hamas general battle flag, and they're all fucking covered with blood. I'm framing those things. That's how bad Hamas sucks. I got their flags in my house and I need to kill them . So these I just find this whole discussion fascinating that people still talking about this . But the free Palestine movement and essentially ended American democracy. You gave the United States to Trump, especially those guys in Michigan that were saying, Don't ever vote for the Democratic Party , Genocide Joe and Killer Kamala , they are planning to ethnically cleanse two point two million people , ethnically cleanse it to build a resort and none of you feel any shame in yourselves That is moral that moral complexity right there is something I think should be studied. There's PhD theses that are going to be reading about this. What do you say, what? The I've been dealing with black and white for a lot of for a large part of my life where everything has to be you're either with me or against me. And if you think about it , that is exactly what an authoritarian regime does . Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salaman doesn't see color. You're either on my side, you're either on my side and you're going to get a role or you're going to get your head cut off here in a few seconds. Who I don't talk to get that roll up . Easy talks business trip. It's easy. I'll let you know how to do it. You just gotta go to the you just gotta visit the king sometimes. I can see them now . You were sent by the gay lion . Voila, get this man a Rolex Daytona elected with the two swords and the palm tree . He's he's very trusted this gay lion . You know, there 's there's a very there's a very very, very, funny joke that we have that's based on truth. You see, our symbol is two swords and a palm tree. And one time someone asked us, What does that mean? He said, We said , You go forward , we give you dates. You go to the right, you go to the left , we cut your heads off . So that's the truth that we have of black and white. You think of everything as black and white and you don't see nuances . You don't see gray, you don't see what is between the lines. You don't try to read between the details, you don't go between the nitty and gritty . You end up becoming an authoritarian person . So getting to understand that Hezbollah Hamas is a terrorist organization . Yes, they're fighting the Israelis, but that doesn't make them good people. Also , on the other hand, the far right Israelis are not doing good shit. So you say the truth , their verses when I'm telling you, I'm standing with someone regardless of their mistakes . There's difference between I'm standing with someone regardless of their mistakes and I'm telling you this person just did a mistake. I'm glad you mention ed that because I've missed one bullet point here on the Israeli roster or Lebanese roster. Ben Gaveer yesterday demanded that, quote, Israel collapse the agreement between Washington and Iran . There you go. Here's your marching orders. When we talked about Netanyahu. When we talked about peace in the Middle East, it always used to be that Iran was the spoiler . Now Now, now it's the Israeli radicals that are spoilers. Anyway, getting in the way of their money. All right. That being said, little thing here. We haven't talked about it, but breaking news nationwide missile alert in the UAE explosion was heard in Dubai minutes ago init ial reports indicate at least one vessel was hit near the street of Mus im. Yes, Christ . Look, I hadn't wanted to verify, but if we had been on schedule, we would have missed this because every time we end the show, the Iranians go, is the show over ? Yes, okay. Let's say He sent one decided . But we went over five minutes , we fooled the IRG . We got to you're right, Judah, okay, the UAE issues alerts for potential missile threats. My guess is this is a false alarm maybe triggered by an attack on a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. They said it has happened before . Yeah, because that's just that missile they issued forty seconds ago dis,regard . Here it is. Oh , those of you who want to know disre gard my bed . You can end your show . Okay . Mesh allah. Okay , that is not where we're going to end the show. I have one thing that I would like to ask a favor of you. I have today two fundraisers going on. The first one is going to go on between now and five PM today on this substack . And what it is, if you go to the substack chat, you will find the black man spy fundraiser laptops for Ukrainian NGOs. It is a NGO that is training Ukrainians how to use drone interceptors. These laptops don't guide the interceptors , okay? Interceptors have their own specialized joysticks and all that. They to track the incoming drones need to be integrated and that's what they're doing. The only way that you can have they are not taking hardware, it is hard to send hardware into Ukraine . B . What PayPal is asking for contact details of the recipient . Gosh , already trouble. Anyway, keep your eye out on that. I'm going to go with that. Somebody says they've been screwing with this thing for over half hour. I'm not getting what I thought I'd paid for when I joined the group. Somebody didn't join this group. What did you join this group for? They're talking about I've been watching a replay. All I get is this chat, have a good day. This guy's on the wrong chat, NJ Osborne . You're on the wrong chat . Bro right above this chat is the chat for the day Okay , please pay attention to which chat you're on. This one specifically says fundraiser laptops for Ukraine. The other one is U. S. Iran attacks day one hundred twenty one. You guys got to exercise strategic patience here . Otherwise, you can watch Aaron Parness just read the news. Back to you all day long . But anyway, we will resolve this issue, whatever is with going on with this fundraiser. This afternoon, we have another specific fundraiser that is taking place with the U krainian organization at five PM called cars forkraine. I think it's dot org . Cars for Ukraine is a legitimate organization. They are donating a vehicle toam Te Jedi and in exchange for your donation to Team Jedi, they are issuing out this special limited edition , Malcolm Dance Black Man Spy Thatch . Let me find that for you right now . And that is coming from them. When you make a donation to cars for Ukraine, for Team Jedi , they will issue you a patch that is sent from Ukraine . Okay, boop, it is a crazy looking little patch , but we shall see if I can find it. But that fundraiser starts tonight at five o'clock on a special substack where you can just go to it and see that. Somebody tell us PayPal has issues too. I mean, we actually had an account, our leachy battalion's account for PayPal was shut down by pro Moscow Maga people . So but there are very few avenues. Go fund me won't touch any of these. Anything for anybody in Ukraine for anything . So that's the way we're going to do it. 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That's what they call him in Saudi Arabia is a principal sec ret advisor to the to the Sheikhs. Kay Nabdullah, I'm sure yes to me , yeah Lyad, that's got to be . That's gotta be a t shirt . Anyway , thank you guys. I appreciate you coming. I won't be in tomorrow. I have a family due in in Jutland , but I'm back on Sunday. Saturday's off. What's that like? Okay , well thank you enjoy it. It's my joy . He's graduating . So that's for congratulations . As ladies like to do , he'll be an economist , a flashy economist . Hey, you know what, by the way, when you're doing you're doing your cultural note, when you're doing your , I've seen those women, their tongues go left and right Mine goes up and down. I can't do it. I can't do that. I'd be very popular if I could, but I can't do it. It's just a cultural thing that takes lifelong training. So we're not going to end that here. Please like, subscribe, and follow Jacob, Waji , and myself . We are going to give you whatever news you know. 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