Audience Questions and Closing Remarks

I'm Malcolm Nance and this is Black Man Spy . Welcome to the extremely fast fiber optic enabled and powered Black Man Spy , US Iran. I called it dormant gas and it's not dormant at all. There's a lot going on. It's just all in the area where there's no shooting. So but we have got a lot going on on day one hundred and twenty sixth of the US Iran crisis war turned crisis, sometimes war back to crisis . So being said , let me introduce you to my co host, Jacob Karsfode, Danish intelligence officer extraordinaire, Middle East expert and Faja, the insanely gay lion coming to us from Minneapolis, Minnesota, so we have Central European Time, Eastern Time, United States, Central Time, United States . And he is our Saudi Arabia geopolitical and Gulf States analyst . And good morning to you guys. How are you? All good. All good. Thanks for having us . It's like already eighty degrees here where I'm at. I got a fan going because I live in an ancient ass giant house . I do not have air conditioning here. Interestingly enough, on the fourth floor , the attic has air conditioning because the attic used to get up to one hundred and ten degrees in summer . Because unlike a lot of other old houses, this place we had to gut and we had to put on a new roof and we put our twenty one or R thirty insulation into that room. I know. I carried this stuff up four flights of steps and padded it all in there. So it there is anything that goes up is not going out of the house . Anything that comes in is not coming into the house. So it would get insanely hot like, well over a hundred ten degrees of the highest we ever recorded up there. So we installed a HVAC system for the fourth floor , which at one time in history was in fact the maid's quarters, yeah, this house is that big. It had maid's quarters. Four rooms that had two maids each. This is like a micro downton abbey. And you know, they had to live somewhere. So they lived up in the attic. That is now been turned into a private suite and office up there. But I had to put HVAC in there. And it's when it goes, it goes , cost money , costs a lot of money. But when it cools, it actually will drop air down into the house. And the third floor, which is the bedroom floor in this office , actually feels pretty good. But it is hot. Somebody says doing well in southe astern South Carolina, Southeast South Carolina, that's where my folks are from Charles So and I don't go down there this time of year, that's crazy. ninety five percent, one hundred percent humidity , you know? Now we got enough of that for three hundred free years of slavery. I don't get around there voluntarily You got to pay you have to literally pay me to go to South Carolina. How are you guys doing? You guys, hot, air conditioning was invented in Buffalo, of course it would have to be. In Denmark today I mean in Denmark, we've already had two days of heat wave , which wouldn't mean heat wave in Saudi Arabia or in the U. S. because if we get plus thirty degrees Celsius, we're like, oh my God, it's so we already had two days of that over the weekend. Now it's nice and pleas ant, twenty two, twenty one. Beautiful . Nice. Well, somebody , Alaska is saying it or Saskatoon, Canada goes, it's super cold right now, eighteen degrees, Celsius . Why? What did you say? I was about to say that it's actually been very nice in Minnesota. We have only had one or two , three hot days . Otherwise it's currently thunderstorms and raining. It's cloudy. I've been very lucky so far in Minnesota . Yeah . Somebody in Okala , Florida says they're having a forty five degrees Celsius heat index . Oh wow Yeah, enjoy it. This is, you know, the funny thing is is that when I lived in Abu Dhabi, I lived all over the Middle East, but I gotta be honest, you know, Abu Dhabi was really hot. I mean, the quarter of the Gulf States would get up to an easy thirty it would be forty degrees in the daytime . And then at night when it cooled off at like midnight, one AM , it would go all the way down the thirty five degrees Celsius. That's ninety five degrees Fahrenheit for the cool part. No one left you your house, you went to your car, you went into a building with massive amounts of air conditioner. I used to go to the mall near my house and just stay in the coast of coffee and write What do you what do you think they invented the outside AC ? Yeah . So they invented it for Dubai AC, that's crazy too . But I served murderers. I served in the north of the Basra province for a for a good while in summer. We used to have this cup we lcurn . We used to have this we used We used to have this competition where we would soak our uniform and hang it up and then see how quickly it would dry. If you had a finish dry . If you had a fully soaked uniform, the record was eleven minutes to dry just on a normal clothesline. Oh, oh, I see awesome. It was straight up hot Yeah, fifty fifty degrees and windy, you know? I lived in Basra for almost ten months and I spent a lot of time riding up there. I've been through Kurona, Binda Alamara, been to all those are as. I thought you were going to tell me it was humid because there is a lot of humidity . That swamps, that's the eastern side if I'm not mistaken of the what is it, the great , you know, southern Iraq swamps where they had the Iraqi swamp people and everything . And it was humid. And I was on by the Garden of Eden, Malcolm. It's just by the Garden of Eden. The Biblical Garden of Eden, you know? I've been to the Garden of Eden. I've been to both restaurants there and the one on the north point and the one on the south point , right? I was there before they built the restaurants when it was just ruffy scruffy . Talk about this restaurants have always been there. They just opened it up at the end I got there in june twenty june look at us. We're big contesting it here. I got to Bosra in june two thousand three . Yeah, when did we invade? January two thousand three, right? So I got there in june two thousand two. Is somebody having a problem with my volume? Is it too high? Too low? I thought it's I'm on head . That's good for me. Sounds good. So somebody may have had a problem with it. It's okay. Don't complain. I got speed. I got literal l,iteral plugged into the fiber optic coming off to the fiber optic line off the telephone bulbs. So I was about to tell you your quality of the video has improved . Well, it'll improve even better because I have coming via Amazon a HD four K four K sixty FPS camera coming. So I could do only fans at this point, right? I can really make some money here, you know, walking around the room pointing to the crazy objects that are in there, right? In four K . So that's going to be coming here too lay down Malc,olm up my audio balance . It sounds pretty good. I'm on headstones, so it should be good . I can see what I can do with regards to that. That being said, I see what the problem is. Now there's no sound at all. Ah, now that's good. Now it's gone . Now it's gone Mutin Amute Mutant amute Audio Audio Good. You're all good. Yep . Okay, so that's what happens. You guys got me playing around my system. I am now on these earpods before I was on the MacBook. And now next time I'm going to be on the Mac desktop with an HD camera with my light Waga, with my interview microphone. I'm going to look like I actually run a podcast as opposed to a bunch of ex spooks around talking. All right, we've reached one thousand of our followers. We are ready to go, volumes better . Don't touch anything, says Dirk Favorite. Okay, I won't be touching nothing . So all right, wow , you know, you got I wrote early on that it was dormant cast that nothing was happening . Boy was I wrong. I got two pages of notes here of all the craziness that's going on . And it's the in between things that make up the key data points that is giving us many indicators of activity that's happening. First ones , first number one, the Doha meetings . As you know, Donald Trump announced a couple of days ago that JD Vance , Steve Witcoff, Jared Kushner representing Washington , Tel Aviv , money . Okay , let me rephrase that. Money, the brain trust and money were all the brain trusts. The brain trust. The three stooges have appeared in Doh Qatar in order to meet with the Iranians for the first round of high level technical talks , except that Iran said yesterday they weren't coming to the Doha Talks. They were like, the fuck are you talking about? We didn't schedule this. You scheduled this. And as we discussed for a little bit yesterday before I got cut off , this is a very common Trump tactic. It's a very common Trump tactic for him too. He schedules a time . He schedules a meeting, he shows up or his lackeys show up . And then what they do is they throw you under the bus and they're meeting with themselves and declare that they have already met these goals and now you have to come along with it. The Iranians have learned how to defeat this by just not coming . And then putting out a Lego video, which I haven't seen a good Lego video in a while, so I got to start checking . But they decided they weren't showing up. Now, here's the best part . All right, I always say that about twenty times a show, but here is the best part . The Iranians showed up , but not for what you think. The Americans are meeting over with the Qataris having a circle joker amongst themselves. The Iranian IRGC finance personnel showed up in Doha to have a meeting with the Qatari finance ministry about releasing their hundred billion dollars , not twenty four billion, that's been released. They want the remainder of the one hundred billion dollars of frozen assets that Qatar has access to. They aren't meeting with the Americans. They didn't come to meet with the Americans. Here's what Minister Galibov said , negotiations with the Americans. They're finished until we get our money. The second part I par aphrase, but negotiations with the Americans are finished until the sanctioned assets are released. So until we get our money , don't even bother talking us. And this actually is using Trump's tactics against him. It's something Trump can understand , right? Go give him my money . Well, they are playing hard balls. Yes, Jacob . And you said it was the best part . I would say the best part is Donald Trump just before we came online here put out some of his true social posts saying de negotiations are going really well. They're making a lot of progress in the negotiation . You know what? That projection was so accurate for a second. I picked up my phone to check check . You know, I was like, he did what? We just started the show . Of course he did. And I'm sure it'll probably happen ten minutes after the show is over. Okay , so the negoti ations in Doha are between the United States and itself enjoying hot cups of tea and Jared Kushner Witcoff. Actually, I don't think Jadie Vance is there. I think it's just Whitner Kushner are there to try to eat some more money out for themselves . The Iranians are here to talk, play hardball . There is one thing that I do want to talk about that Galibaf actually pissed off the IRGC yesterday . He was doing an interview in IRIB television, which is Iranian state television where he made the comment maybe he was pulling a Trump. He wasn't thinking about it that he doesn't think Iran should have a problem buying U. S. food stuffs with their sanctioned release sanctioned money. The TV immediately cut the audio , right? You can almost hear Much Tabal Hameni going, the fuck is wrong with you? No, no, not plenty of American food. Chinese food, yes. American food. No . So they cut Galli Buff off. And then right after that, he got back online saying, Oh, yeah, yeah, we're we're fine. We are not going to be buying American foodstuffs. Interesting how that's playing . Next comes the Strait of Hormuz. Any commentary by the way on that Qatar relationship Well we know that Iranians are in control. The Iranians came out today and said their strongest power is the ability to control the Strait of Hormuz . Then not showing up to the meeting is a is a power play . You're you're literally saying I don't care whether you're negotiating or not because you haven't met your basic MOU principles, which is control in the war at all fronts. Like that's the biggest one. Well, you haven't ended the war at all fronts. So since you haven't ended the war at all fronts, whatever meeting you want to do is not going to work with us . Right . Very true . Yeah, interestingly enough, Wagya, I have a little bullet here of JD Vance talking about the real purpose of this MOU, which I'm going to save for you after the Strait of Hormuz update . The price of oil is it still at sixty seven dollars a barrel ? Anybody can check for me? While you're doing that only thir teen ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz yesterday . I consider that a decline . It was seventy three days ago. The IRGC of course put out that warning and then hit those ships and that is back down to thirteen . At its peak thus far , the Strait of Hormuz has only peaked at twenty five percent of its pre war traffic , which means nothing's moving. All this talk of the artificial inflated deflated or deflated oil prices aren't bearing the reality of ships that are com ing down. What do we got? Is that can you read that? It's sixty nine is a sixty nine seventy two . Marvon is all the way at sixty six So these are penny drops. , not too busy. Yeah. Yeah. In case you didn't get that sixty nine joke, that was from the movie Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventure . Which you would have to be my age to appreciate that film. Tiano Reeves as a surfing doper from San Dimas, California . And he's actually pretty good at it and that was his strength. So with regards to that , in a foreign container ship I could not get its name watching the video . A container ship has run aground taking the Omani shallow shallow passageway in the Strait of Horn was the container ship was not fully loaded. You can see from the video. I don't have the video to show it to you. Thank you right there in the Musunda Peninsula . It was very high out of the water, red haul we could see the red underh, whicha meulans that there was practically nothing in those containers. It was empty containers. Coming out, ship is riding high, it has no load , ran aground. The best part about this is the Iranians came out to harass it in Omani waters and said this vessel will pay a large ransom for IRGC's assistance . Should have just paid the two million dollars? It would working . Here's the happened. Car has been towed. Your car has been towed. You gotta pull it off I heard GC show boats come out certain you all to the what do you call it the impound lot in Vanandororba yes Yeah, yay . Somebody said somebody says Sam Dimus is a long way from the beach. That was the joke in Bill and Ted's most excellent adventure . Okay , so Oman is now on board. They have announced that they are on board to take part in charging a management fee for vessels that come in and out of the Strait of Hormuz. So the Iranian plan to get people to pay to come in and out of the Strait of Hormuz is now going to be the official policy of Iran and Oman, they are just working out the details. The phrase that they used was a management. This would be a fee for management cost , the same way that there is a fee, a small fee charge in the Straits of Mal ucca, you know, that's just to count your ships, have Coast Guard ready, all of those things . We said that is high as eighty billion a year . Yeah. It's more or less the same wording as the Omani and Iranian foreign ministers used in their joint statement after their meeting Monday last week . But then the Omanis under pressure from the Trump administration and started doing that IMO thing and saying, Oh no, we don't want to charge, et cetera, et cetera. But back comes the Iranian pressure on Oman , and that's why they have shifted back to the Iranian position. Yeah, well, you know, in this circumstance, once the Omanis start charging and the Iranians for inbound and the Iranians start charging for outbound , or whatever. It is a real multipass now . You can go you can go both ways North and South. The Iranians are still threatening that they will not let people use the old historic route and that way they can exercise force whenever somebody tries to misbehave both the Omanis. The Omanis are the Iran ians are actually doing pretty good . This since the MOU has been signed , they have moved fifty million barrels of oil , totaling three , not one , not two, but three billion dollars of cold hard cash . The Iranians are the only nation in the Persian Gulf that is actually moving and selling oil. None of the other Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, even Iraq have not even started to get up to those numbers. The Saudis and the Emiratis are relying on their bypass pipes logs. So that a good moving price and the price for the Iranian oil is now way higher than it was before the war because it was mentioned and the Chinese could put pressure on the Iranians to lower the price . Now with the opening and the abolishment of all the sanctions on Iran and also the dollar the dollar as payment, etc , et cetera, the prices have gone up. We're premium, baby. That's what you got. Those bridges are goingn't to build themselves, right? You know, the Iranians are saying, girlfools are not going to build themselves. And we got to beat money out of the Americans. Easiest way to beat money out of the Americans is at the American gas pump. That being said , we know We know I saw another analysis yesterday that the tank bottom crisis is being ignored by traders . And they say that when it comes, it is going to give a oil shock which could, be a lot steeper than we just had. It might not just jump a dollar. It might jump two to three dollars per gallon when it comes . And that could come anytime between mid July and September . That being said , JD Vance did an interview. I guess Ben Shapiro has been doing sickly as of plate for you guys who don't know, I debated Ben Shapiro or had an argument on Ben Shapiro on Real Time with Bill Maur a few years ago. And I just kept looking at that kid and going , how does he, you know, I had over a million social media followers at the time. Ben Shapiro is an artificially manufactured entity . He was handed when he used to call him, I'm not joking. When he was started his show , he was handed ten million dollars and told go create a right wing conservative news here that would challenge the liberals. I mean, it'd be like somebody handed me ten million dollars . First off, that's just nine million dollars spent on classic land rovers . Okay , and then a million dollars running this show with better advertising . But they handed them ten million dollars. And then by the time I was on real time with him, where I was on MSNBC , he had been given another fifty million dollars by Sheldon Adelson to do what he does. And the funny thing is is that it's now hemorrhaging money. They say that his whatever his program is, that's how influential he is. I don't know , but he's part taking part in the giant rift now between Maga as him as an Israel supporter and MAGA being racist, anti Semitic and sexist , right are really down on him now . And they say he's hemorrhaging money fired off dozens and dozens of snaps. I didn't have do nothing . I come on to you and everybody gets the information that they need. But JD Vance went on to save him yesterday . Right? First time JD Vance went there on the Ben Shapiro network sitting down in an open chair format like between two ferns normally Ben Shapiro he's behind his you know, it's his crazy eyebrows. I don't know if you guys have ever seen it. Mal got some crazy eyebrows. And they're manicured too. So he sat down with Benjamin for your own fingernails are my fingernails are not manicured. He I'm going to tell you guys, I sat next to Ben Shapiro literally less than a foot away from this guy . Mel's great nails are meticulous , meticulously dumb . You know, and it's not because the makeup artist at Bill Bill Myers awesome awesome lady who does everything there . This guy, I mean, you know, I work around the house, you know, the joke is that I'm a New York Times bestselling author for an TV commentator for exactly one hour per day, this hour . And then I'm in the garden. I was pulling weeds yesterday out of a one acre garden thirty degrees Celsius. That's my day job, right? Cleaning, manufacturing, doing things around his house . This guy's job is given tens of millions of dollars to have JD Vance on , but JD Vance feeling comfortable . Well, you have to one second. I'm going to get to something significant. I want you to comment. Yeah , what he said . What he said yesterday is going to not shock you and me, but it's gonna shock everybody who watches it. JD Vance came out and told the truth for two minutes . He said Trump told them to use the memorandum of understanding . Clearly, why should you stop drinking? I don't want you spitting out on your to camera . Okay . Swallow, good. All right. Told JD Vance says Trump told them to use the memorandum of understanding as an opportunity to refill our oil stocks use the global market to get things back flowing , and then quote, we will see what comes next . And it's being built across the internet as the MOU is a fit negotiation pause the way the negotiations were being held just before we attacked I ran . It is all about getting tanks filled, avoiding tank bottom , then Trump has a meeting yesterday with the chairman of the joint chief of staff, Pete Hagseth for next phase oper ations against Iran . And the meaning was supposed to be about how a new war campaign would play out in the run up or post run up to the election But for now he is quote unquote sticking to diplomacy . So what we got yesterday Watch it, now you can comment, JD Vance told the truth. This MOU is bullshit. I believe him. Yeah , I believe him because he said it on Ben Shapiro show because he was trying to talk to Israel . Well, it makes absolute sense. Trump when he was at the G seven openly or at the NATO I forgot NATO Sun in the G seven . He openly said, Oh, we're sitting down with the Iranians because the economy is now not doing so good . So we have to like get to the end. Like he said it out right. Trump came out and said to the world that we are negotiating with the Iranians because we're hurting economically . So when JD Vance comes out and adds another fact , we're not only sitting down and negotiating because we're hurting economically . But once we have some sort of breakthrough with our economic situation , the war resumes . Right. So this is the Trump administration essentially is aligned with Netanyahu's far right regime . They're both on the same stage about escalating the situation. What's happening in Lebanon is exactly what they want going on . This is not going to end in the next few months . This is the thing that we have been saying. These are magnalists people who want to put their own interests first. We found out yesterday that Trump has traded thousand times in this administration . Of course, yeah. Of course he has. This is a money making operation. This is this is not this is not foreign policy. It is not foreign policy. It is a money making operation in the grift of the highest order using the tools of US and instruments of US power and the lives of US servicemen. He doesn't care about those thirteen people who were killed and the two others three now that have died in combat or died in non combat oper ation . And this is also why as we discussed yesterday, Waji, the Iranians know all this. You know, you can tell a lot of things about the Iranians, but they are not dumb and, they have no confidence whatsoever in Donald Trump or JD Vance or Steve Witcoff or Jared Kushner . And that's why they're holding on to their hard bargaining chips , which is the Strait of Hormuz, which is the highly enriched uranium, et cetera, et cetera. So they're not going to move and they want just like Trump to get as much money out of this while the while the MOU is still , you know , in some kind of being kept alive, although nothing is progressing. You have to read Mom you head go ahead. I was just going to say the Iranians are also using the MOU because they already know the opponents that they have here. They go, Hey, these two grifting guys that when they sit down in a room and do how they're not talking to us, they're talking to Gitarians They're looking for money. You know, Jared Kushner got bailed out to the tune of what was it six billion dollars or three billion dollars , which bailed out his six six hundred sixty Park Avenue, which had gone, it was going under . So he owes them . They gave Trump a four hundred million dollars airplane. He owes them. So I can almost see the Iranians sitting on one side of the table going , we should just ask whatever the fuck we want because it's irrelevant to the Americans. They're going to give it to us. They're going to give it to us, but they are really negotiating for what they want out of the Arabs . Yeah, yeah You have to remember the Iranians have hired multiple therapists, multiple psychiatrists to go over all of their deals, to go over all their messaging so they can target s and particularly the they also understand that if you give you mentioned Jacob , they don't want to give a Trump an inch. Well, they understand they have analyzed Trump. Anyone that gives the Trump an inch, Trump makes that a mile . So for some reason, that like everyone that knows Trump. If you give him one inch, he always takes advantage of the situation and continues forward. So they know no, we ain't giving you nothing else as long as we got the upper hand, we are not giving you nothing. That's why we have control over the strait of hormones. That's why even though we and you and Oman are agreeing on having joint venture over their strait , but right now as we are negotiating with the United States, you are not in control of the situation. We say who passes and who doesn't . We say how many shit passes and that exactly gives them the upper hand that they need to sit down on the table . One thing I wanted to mention about Ben Shapiro, he buys his followers and subscribers by the way . They did a million dollars. I'll be buying something something the math wasn't adding up about Shapiro's followers and comments and reactions . He has too many followers for the and that's cheating his investors and cheating the advertisers that he's taking . So I mean and cheating the people that are watching him. Yeah, Habii wal . Okay . This says bullshit. It doesn't matter to these people right. It doesn't matter to these people . These guys are out there . When we say that they're, you know, they're in Doha in Techran , you know, selling camels, these guys are generating AI camels and swearing that they're the best camel salesman in the world. It's all bullshit lies with them. And this is why intelligence professionals and geopolitical professionals like us , we just we just laugh at them because they're not real people people. Real, real money is being traded here though . Okay. And this is why the Iranians are getting everything they want. You mentioned the Omanis . Here's why the Omanis are accepting the Strait of Hormuz control scheme now , because the philosophy pushed by Trump and now the Iranians or the Omanis see that it works for the Iranians is fuck you. I got mine. I'm getting I'm getting mine. Fuck you if you don't get yours . Yomani's went from no, we will not do this in February to yeah, let's do this. Let's get our money. Let's get forty billion dollars a year . And Yomanny's also know that the Trump administration aren't reliable allies . No , so they read the map and they say, well Iran is here to stay and we don't know what the he ll Donald Trump is going to do . So , you know, we need to accommodate accommodate our last next door neighbor . Yeah, that's it. Yeah All right Trump is the presidential tool to end all of America's diplomatic relations He has destroyed the bridges between the United States and the Gulf States. He destroyed the bridges between the United States and Europe . Yeah . In the last few months, he even destroyed the bridges that was built for under five different U. S. presidential administrations , including his own . He destroyed the Indian American relations . He is literally taking it like he's looking who's next who am I going to 's next? Who am I going to slap next ? Yeah, this is exactly what he's doing . Watch it . You and that common sense you're going to have to stop introducing that into the show , right ? You keep looking at him like he's going to be he did something against normal things . He's his job is to screw up normalcy . It's to screw it up. He loved this. They fired a thousand state department diplomats who were stationed around the world this year . twenty percent of wait , half of all embassies in the Middle East North have to have no ambassador because Trump is mouth and truth social is the ambassador , you know ? So just utterly amazing that anybody would even consider that as normal. Yes, it will go to normal in the previous world where people will interpret for him, but if he really is serious with you, he sends Woodcoff and Kushner because they're bagmen. Bagmen are there to negotiate the money you're paying the boss , not the end deal . That's that's what it really is all about . Boy, well the interesting thing is the route that's going on between the Trump administration and Saudi Arabia now , because that is a real , a real row. And that will have, you know, ramifications for a long time to come both with the American base bases in Saudi Arabia and also financially. I want to discuss tomorrow when we do this show about the Wall Street Journal's reporting on how the US and Saudi Ara bia had a big rift right and weren't going to allow the U. S. to do this war until Iran struck them . And then Saudis are like, okay, I guess we got to go with the infrastructure we've been preparing for forty years. But that doesn't mean it's going to be that way in the future. I think the Saudis are going to start saying, Hey, we got enough missiles, we got nothing interceptors. We don't need you guys around . Yeah . You know, subject. Trump. Oh , it was only a few months ago , it was only a few months ago when Trump stood in front of a conference full of large Saudi investors and made fun of the Saudi crown prince in front of everyone . Yeah, but you could see you could almost see MVSCO, let it slide , let it slides Oh no, no, no, no . No, no, no, no , and then a few days after the crown prince was asking Trump to send more missiles or do something about the drones and the missiles that are coming from Iran . And he didn't. So MBS went to Ukraine and Trump sent Rubio immediately to Saudi Arabia to say, I'm disappointed at you. Why are you going to the Ukrainians? Trump said you couldn't protect my ass. I had to go somewhere else. Yeah, well, we'll see how that works out for them, but I think there's a new future Gulfs Alliance here that will replace the United States. They can't afford to be quite honest. I mean, if Qatar is losing two trillion dollars , trillion dollars in a matter of months, nobody thought that that would be it. They have no integrated defense, so they'll lose it again in the future . And Iran didn't even use all of its full force of its armed forces. Thousands of anti ship missiles, drones, cruise missiles, and they didn't even land any commandos there. So I'm really disappointed. That's not true. Commandos landed in Bubian Island. They got killed, but they did land in Kuwait. All right, next as if we didn't have enough to worry about , let's talk about IDF in Lebanon. Yesterday, the Israeli defense forces destroyed a two hundred meter long tunnel in the town of Majdal Majdal Zahom . And I watched the video and it looks like they blew up half of the town of Maj dal Zone . The tunnel went through the downtown area or the middle of the village and everything, and the Israelis used an enormous amount of explosives in it. They didn't cap it. They put down easily it must have been a ton or more of explosives in there and they blew up that glace. The Israelis said, oh, that was a defensive operation, which it was. And but needless to say, Hezbollah is pissed off about it . Speaking of that Admiral Cooper, commander of US Central Command, Navy Admiral Cooper , met President Aoon and General Rudolph Heikel in Beirut yesterday , it almost looks like Central Command is preparing for that mission we talked about of bringing on board the SFAB, right? What we call the Security Forces Assistance Brigade. That's where the United States send over hundreds or thousand troops and they rapidly train your forces up to use arm or, mechanized infantry, evaluate you, get you new equipment, new body armor, helmets, rifles, whatever you want. I know this because the same damn thing happened when I was twenty years old in Beirut in nineteen eighty three. We did the exact same thing. The Lebanese Army because it is made up of limited number of people from multiple confessions is not is not as integrated as we would like it to be . It is not as how can I put it? They won't all fight for Lebanon if it comes down to a civil war, for example . The armor that they have is archaic , archaic. Okay, they use M sixty A one tanks. There's a VFW down the road for me that has an M sixty A one tank out front as a monument. Same thing with the M forty eight patent. There is a VFW in Albany that has an M forty eight patent tank on the front of it as a memorial . Okay. I mean, they use ancient weapon . They do not have the capacity to disarm his boa. And I think Trump and his crazy minions and Pete Hagseth and General Cain are all in on central command, you know, the Lebanese army becoming an extension of central command and getting ready to take on Hezbollah. It would be a slaughter . Okay . I've seen Hezbollah fight in the streets. All right ? They are great urban warfare fighters because they believe in what they're fighting. If you fight for the Lebanese armed forces , right now, you're not fighting for Lebanon. You're fighting for fighting for San In Tel Aviv, you're fighting well, if you take a salary, you can get your salary paid, which is probably another thing Central Command is going to do for them, right? We always see these guys have to get paid. No one's going to be giving them a one hundred percent increase in salary. That would get a lot of guys on board, but it would be riddled with his ballas fast , right? And Iranians who would be paying them off . So I think it's fun that we're going there and assisting, but I don't know it's the , you know, it's the equivalent of how quickly the Iran Iraqi armed forces folded , you know, when ISIL crisis started to attack and when the Shia militia came roaring roaring in, it's pretty much the same story unfortunately. And we know there were only two there I gotta tell you something about that war. When ISIS attacked and the Iraqi army folded, there were two forces that didn't, and that's because they essentially weren't really Iraqi forces . Okay , for years ten years, they had been American forces and that was Iraqi police swap and the Iraqi special forces . And those guys I saw see those guys and I were like essentially Americans and you know, they got good trading and all that. And for us to go and think that we're going to go do that with the Lebanese armed forces , that's not going to happen. But Iraq did stand up in the end to fight ISIS without us , the Iraqis learned how to fight , right? Everything because we financed the because we financed the Shia militia being enrolled into the PM . And they were the ones that ousted ISIS from this traditional Sunni area. Lots of all they had in them was Yahoo Say and Alahu Akpar. And that was motivation enough for them to go out and kill ISIS. So that being said, one last thing. And we're going to go to questions. Yes, Waji . There's a few things to take into consideration. When we're looking at Iraq, Iraq , the government itself and the people of Iraq and the Shia in particular were all targets of ISIS and that would have easily united the milit ary with funding from the United States. You also need to take into big consideration what is happening in Lebanon. Lebanon when the United States or UAE or Qatar or Saudi Arabia send Fran , they're sending two hundred three hundred four hundred million dollars for every few years . Meanwhile, you have Iran that has an annual b udget that they're sending to Isabel of a billion dollars a year . How do you expect a military that is way under funded that gets few hundred million dollars and refuses fight back a militia that is funded an annual one billion dollar from Iran . But a highly motivated doesn't matter a highly motivated , religiously motivated militia . Yeah , right. Hezbollah, they believe that it's not about Hezbollah, right? The party of God . It's their belief that they as a Shia minority must be ready to be honest, they have the mindset of the Israelis and they have the fighting spirit of the Israelis. You know, I ever want to hear the Israelis say that, you know, say that, oh, they're nothing like us. Yeah, they are. They're a lot like you. They are they are motivated on the belief that anything other than fighting means extinction . And that 's a combat multiplier . Hey, real quick, I'm going to go to the questions . I have to go through my mobile, so don't mind me if I'm meeting. But as long as we're here, if you haven't seen the threat we have on the summer sunshine campaign raising money for trucks for Ukraine , it's one of the threads that we have there where you get the black man spy patch . I don't even have any control over that patch. They're being made in Ukraine and shipped out to the United States . And you can still donate to that. We're only two thousand euros away from our goal. So I'm going to key that back up in the in the chat. You guys can go see that. So now let me bring up my stubstack chat . Oh, oh, by the way, I have one last article that I want to br ing up . So now we're not going to be dissoning the Israelis all day. Now it's time to hammer the Lebanese . There was a journalist called Maria Maloof who was arrested by the Lebanese government in twenty twenty one for an interview that she did where all she did was do an interview directly with Israeli television . They have just sentenced her to fifteen years in prison for what? Doing an interview with Israeli television. So now I'm hearing all this talk about how Lebanons are bestie and that they are working closely with Israel and the United States , maybe they might want to do something about letting this lady go . All right. This is the stupidest thing. They're almost schizophrenic in the way they're doing. Let me tell you, if she goes and asks for an interview with Ivanka Trump, she'll be out in a day . It's as simple as that. So now let's go to questions, but I find that ridiculous . It is not against the law to speak to news media organizations of the opposite side . Okay , whoof . Here we are. That's day one hundred twenty five. There we are questions . Day one hundred twenty six wow, there's a lot of comments and a lot of questions and there are people showing me their coffee cups. A lot of people showing me their coffee cups. I like it. I like it a lot . Okay , okay, let me do so cup today though. That's why. I know we saw them. We saw it so I got my black. I have coffee and ice drinks at the same time because I need it . Okay , somebody says, What is the significance of the ever lovely hit the day before being Taiwanese owned Single poor red history. It was just to send a message to all the other ships and that's why ships aren't going through the southern strait of Formula. Tell you the truth, that containers ship going ashore today sort of ruined it for everybody now. Now they show o,h , the problem isn't the Iranians, it's navigation hazards. And now you've got a hole in the bottom of your ship that has to be refloated and taken to Karaji Pakistan. And the repairs are definitely going to cost more than two million dollars . Pay up . That's what the Iranians are saying. Nice, nice cup there, rare lightmare . What does her cup say ? It says she believes she could, so she did. This is raare everyone sending me their That's hilarious. All right . And what is MB MB MB A? I don't understand that cup. What is that? That's from Oh, Robot Bender showed his cup. So you know what? I'm liking the cup thing. I should do a cup thread just for your cups so that we can get to the questions . Somebody asked that very question about the container ship running around running aground. What do we think about that ? But in war planning, who does the analysis of economic impacts of wartime operations, who would have done that for the Iran conflict? Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency , the Department of Commerce and the Department of Energy . And I'm certain none of them were consulted . I was like, let's go this. They got guns and planes and dude . And huge missiles . And huge missiles . Yeah, you know what that means? That's Cedexa. That's their idea. That's the Trump National Security Council is run by the Secretary of State, and he doesn't seem to have any clue . Okay, somebody corrected, we have corrected that . A lot of great comments in here. Missiles and misfires, somebody calls it a movie. Missiles and misfires or the Iran incidents . That's pretty good. That's pretty good . You guys are clever . I like that, but a lot of comments today, not so much Jeeves, don't you think that the Balihood million dollar missiles versus fifty dollars drone this year is too soon to pass a bump on road to perdition . Is a soon to be passed bump on the road to perdition? Companies like Andrew are already stripping and others are coming online with inexpensive, high volume productions, including mesh tactical networks. Those companies are coming online with very expensive drones. They're not inexpensive. They're inexpensive compared to what American companies usually charge like two or three hundred thousand dollars . These are not the five hundred dollars drones the Ukrainians are using the three thousand interceptor three thousand dollars interceptor drones the Ukrainians are using. They're getting their money. They wouldn't do it for less than a billion dollars. Andrew got eight hundred fifty million dollars , right? For a weapon system which is not in our inventory ? We shall see. Jacob, the U. S. Ambassador to Denmark is the US ambassador to Denmark allowed to have a Freedom two hundred and fifty celebration? If so, will any Danish diplomats attend . Ken Howie ? I haven't anything . Yeah, yeah, Halle . Yeah . Yeah, Ken Howardry, I haven't seen anything about it here in Here in here in Denmark , you know, the trouble for Danish diplomats is you know they they want to keep up diplomatic courtesy so they turn up even even, you know, if they don't like it . So but I haven't seen anything on it. I'm not on the guest list after what I've said about Kenhauri. So that's too bad. Shane Granger from Australia says a weird question, weird question, will you be able to audio autobiography be available to Australia Kindle? Yeah, it's going to be a worldwide release. It's going to be in multiple languages . So I'm sure we can get you an Aussie copy, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, but that's next January. Hopefully, global economic catastrophe will not have struck by then and we will be able to actually print books, put them on a ship, and actually get around the world. That is not guaranteed . Not through the strain of Homoud, though most book ers, most book publishers come through China . And as a matter of fact, that's why it takes a year to get a book actually printed from manuscript turn in . It takes a year because the three largest book publishers during COVID were in China. I think two went out of business, one has come back online. Nobody prints in the United States anymore. Nobody . That's crazy. And then here's Peter Jerrell . That's a good one. I'm lacking in my game. All right , Malcolm, I came late if you answered this. Do you think this is from Jimmy S? Do you think Trump keeps escalating because he feels embarrassed by the backlash he's getting for the MOU ? Well, you did come late to it. Go back and watch the section about JD Vance. JD Vance says that this is all Panama , that this is designed to refill the oil tanks to where the United States could be in a position to strike again. I believe JD Vance 'cause he said it on a Trump friendly, Israel friendly show . And you know, it was one of those rare instances where it was like, Oh, I'm with my bros. I'll tell the truth. Wait, what? Oh, I shouldn't have said that. Okay , thanks . You know, it's sort of like Trump's confession that that we were going to go to tank bottom. But but it's funny, you know, the Trump loyalists, they usually say, Well, Trump is, you know, saying all these things because he doesn't want the opponents to know what's really going on. It's his superior negotiation tactics . And then blows it all blows it all up, yes . That 's a moron. I mean, he's a real idiot . Did you know in the Supreme Court filing about finance , it came out that JD Vance was going to run for Senate again . Vance per senate twenty twenty eight was one of the examples that was used in the filings for the Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance. Oops , okay . I shouldn't have done this. All right, guys , thanks for coming today . I want to give you a few administrative notes if you're watching this on YouTube. And you will be watching though on YouTube, I'm uploading it the very second this show is done. Since this show is very clear and this is the way it's going to be from now on. I will be running this show on laptop via ethernet or laptop via its wifi, which is much better. I don't know what's up with my iPhone sixteen Pro. Maybe it's time for an iPhone seventeen plus Pro. I don't know . But thanks for coming . If you can, become a subscriber, a paid subscriber to Black Man Sp y or Wagy or Jacob Carzfo . Wagia is doing pretty well. Jacob Yester. May I help you? No, it's just too important parts of information . One is I won't be in tomorrow because I'm going to Jutland and I'm afraid you won't see me Friday or Saturday either because have an annual bash with the old July the year celebrating it and I know it's an annual bash the first weekend of July here in Denmark with seven of the gold mates . Yeah . You're not going to see me on screen because I won't be in a state where you want to talk to me . I believe anything I say . So I usually try to be a reliable guy, but for the next couple of days , I won't be. So just full disclosure here. It's an annual bash the first weekend of July in the northern most part on the tip of Denmark, actually up near the top, at the top, actually . All right, awesome And then tonight I have the big Ukraine show. I've dug out all the data , the hot data points I could I could find about what's really going on inside inside Russia and also the Ukrainian strike campaign in the occupied territories. Not at least Crimea. So that's on in a few hours . So yeah, great . Well, all of you enjoy Jacob, enjoy Spook Street Drink Fetch, that's what we would call that . And And we will see you all tomorrow right back here. Watch and I will have all the data for you. And let's hope that it's really a slow day because it's supposed to be a hundred degrees in New York City. So take care everybody . I will see you all tomorrow. Bye bye. See ya It's not cooperating and my finger is not pressing it right here you go