TRUMP ORDERS AIRCRAFT CARRIERS INTO HORMUZ – IRAN GOES ON FULL COMBAT ALERT — COL. Lawrence Wilkerson

[0:00] uh ostensibly for israel but he is expediting speeding up accelerating the destruction of the [0:08] jewish state in the levant now that's not the big thing that's happening the big thing is the [0:14] struggle the struggle between the east and the west if you will but it's all part of the same [0:20] fabric right now and as i've said the danger here and and i think just to get back to saudi arabia [0:28] for me i think it's gone i think just like israel is gone i think saudi arabia is gone at least it's [0:34] gone as the uh state that it's been for the last well since fdr and the king met um and israel's [0:42] gone as a jewish state so we're changing lots with this incredibly incompetent leader we have in [0:52] washington but he's being forced into some of the defeat by these inexorable forces that are clashing [1:00] right now on the world scene and they're clashing on a front nema that runs all the way as i've said [1:07] many times it's it's almost 8 000 kilometers from the arctic circle all the way down to where we [1:15] have our ships a thousand nautical miles i've told still our carriers our capital ships in the indian [1:23] ocean and that's another indicator that this is not a maritime world anymore because these carriers [1:30] are afraid to go any closer because they'll be sunk they'll be destroyed that's a real comment [1:37] because this is the instrument most noted in the world of the american empire's ability to bring [1:45] military power into your backyard tomorrow morning this instrument this instrument that was made you know [1:53] famous around the world by these little wars we've conducted from their platforms is gone it is no [2:01] longer a symbol of american power worth chump change it just remains for a couple of them to be sunk to [2:10] prove that dramatically and decisively but that is an indicator of how the american empire has walked [2:19] itself into a defeat that is not just like afghanistan and iraq and somalia and libya and a host of other [2:28] little wars were this is fundamental this is a defeat of the empire a massive defeat of the empire [2:37] and these symbols are going to go with that defeat and we're seeing it right now and we're going to [2:43] see it even further and i'm really worried as i said before and that we're going to see some mushroom [2:49] clouds in the process too not least am i worried about that because when the empire understands and [2:56] trump never will but there are people around trump who will understand that we are going down as it [3:02] were literally and figuratively then we will resort to nuclear weapons use you know there are people [3:12] already talking about it in the in the group that runs around in between trump and these old cars [3:19] they're already talking about why aren't we using them on a run do you think larry if do you see any [3:31] possibility of israel getting involved before the election happening in israel it'll all depend it [3:39] on how netanyahu assesses his chances i think his last ditch effort if he thinks he's going to be [3:47] defeated will be to search for that decisive victory over his principal enemy and he'll do anything to [3:55] bring that about including dragging the united states in in combination for a joint attack but it won't [4:03] happen until he you you'll see the the precursor i think neymar will be what he does that is [4:09] violative of all the agreements but very much designed to keep hezbollah from entering the conflict once it [4:17] commences in lebanon watch his actions in lebanon and i've got a feeling everyone is watching that too [4:26] what is your assessment of donald trump's position the donald trump sort of strategy with the with this [4:44] rate you detect a strategy no i don't see that i don't i detect back and forth back and forth back [4:53] and forth that's all he knows what to do and the shame of it is the military at least as far as i can [4:59] detect now i understand general kane has made some real objections solid objections because the other [5:05] commanders in chief and the different aors your africa pacific are coming in and telling him what [5:11] do you mean allowing all these stores to be shot what do you mean dwindling the patriot list down so [5:18] far the thad list down so far what do you mean using all these munitions that we might need because [5:24] they're in our war plans in case we have to execute them so they're putting a lot of pressure on kane [5:31] but they're not getting much headway in terms of trump's and hexath so they keep doing it but do you [5:43] feel that does that mean that they're going to continue with this teeth for tat or because in my [5:50] opinion with the blockade it comes to a moment that we're going to see heavy sort of fight happening [5:57] between the two sides it's not going to continue the same way that we've been witnessing before [6:03] because two days ago we had a statement from the irgc they say the blockade is is war is declaration of [6:12] war against us it's not going to be any sort of pause or ceasefire anything of that there is no [6:17] negotiations happening we know that and the mediators it seems that they're trying to do their best [6:24] and the only real negotiations that are happening is is happening between iran and oman with the case [6:34] of the strait of hermos nothing between iran and the united states if bradley cooper admiral bradley [6:42] cooper the commander in chief of central command if he is scared to bring his carriers inside a thousand [6:51] nautical miles then how do we bring any kind of real naval power which is what it's going to take [7:01] to do what uh trump has intimated he might do with regard to the straighter moves open it by force [7:09] how would you do that i i don't see any way to do that you bring in that symbol of american power and it [7:16] is at least in one instance that's all it'll take destroyed destroyed probably in less time than you [7:24] and i have talked so far how do you explain that and how how do you explain it to the american people [7:30] and how do you deal with it in terms of the war that would be traumatic that and that's the only way [7:38] you're only gonna you're gonna fight a conflict in the vicinity of the strait of hermos with a [7:46] reasonable chance even for a moment or two i don't say it over the long term but for a moment or two [7:52] gaining superiority gaining superiority that you could then claim has opened the strait of hermos [8:00] and it is now moving traffic again and doing it safely because these two carriers three carriers [8:06] whatever are sitting off chabahar you know and protecting everything with their air power um my [8:15] first question would be how much does that air power have left my second question would be when are [8:22] you going to do that bradley when are those carriers going to come into range where your air power could [8:28] actually mean something without having to be tanked to the extent that is meaningless that move would [8:38] indicate just how serious we are about combat power close enough to the strait of hermos to even [8:45] temporarily say we had control over and i think the iranians know that i think they know that and i think [8:53] they're fully prepared to take out at least one if not two of those carriers there are two suspicious [9:03] attacks the latest one on saudi arabia yambo refinery which was attacked by drones nobody was taking [9:10] responsibility of that attack no and some people said maybe saudi arabia is faking you know somehow [9:18] is trying to put some false information out that's one of the you know one of the rhetorics right now the [9:24] other one is someone hit them and they're gonna hit back and finally they have decided to attack [9:30] together with the united states attack iraq part of the iraqi army by the way not part of the resistance [9:36] that are not you know this is this was a huge step on the part of saudi arabia the other point was [9:43] yesterday the attack drone attack on american ships in egypt yeah this is was this was somehow new york [9:51] times came out in a new article saying iran is behind that attack then iran iranian foreign minister [9:59] came out said no we didn't do that we don't need we consider them as a friendly country we don't need [10:06] to go that far why what is in it for us to attack egypt then egypt said we are applying we are [10:13] investigating the case later on they said it wasn't iran it wasn't it was not iran yeah yeah egypt [10:21] government said it was not iran that's what i heard too yeah yeah so what what is you're describing [10:31] what i'm talking about you're talking about it at a tactical level but nonetheless a tactical level [10:36] that has the opportunity the potential to go operational strategic of overnight it's like the [10:45] you know that's what we used to call the cnn effect a single soldier a single soldier in mogadishu for [10:51] example and his death on television on cnn could be a strategic event where you're you're talking about [10:59] the same thing right now this these two wars are both pregnant with the possibility of a little tactical [11:07] event suddenly blooming into being a strategic event and this is a case in point and here's the problem [11:15] nema the antagonist and the people behind the antagonist antagonist even more so the people [11:22] behind what's happening in spain for example with morocco they know that and so they do these things [11:30] their intelligence services their street secret services i'll call them they do these things in [11:36] order to take advantage of that opportunity to make a tiny little event become a strategic event and [11:44] that's the dangers of having such a wide array of conflict going on right now you got a lot of [11:51] players you got a lot of people that a lot of intelligence agencies that can play in it spoiling [11:56] for something to do to impact what they think is their future budget and their future existence they all [12:03] want to do things and these opportunities come up and you got someone like donald trump and pete [12:08] eggsa and ratcliffe and others who don't know their butt from a hole in the ground and so every [12:15] they give these orders do anything you can to help what we're doing and they go out and they do it and [12:22] i'm not saying that's what happened but i'm saying that this is a possibility and it's an environment [12:28] that's just pregnant with these possibilities look at look at the false flags i think that have occurred [12:34] associated with ukraine many of them have been discounted but they've nonetheless have done the [12:39] damage that they've done particularly to russia it's it's to putin's credit and the russian military general [12:46] staff's credit that they have not acted on some of these things that they clearly believe and maybe their [12:53] intelligence services confirmed for them were false flag who knows who struck the ship in egypt that's the [13:04] question and for what purpose and who knows what happened in the red sea and for what purpose but we do [13:12] know what is happening on a strategic basis in a general sense and that is that saudi arabia is being [13:21] isolated and it is probably going to find it very difficult to continue on its present path and on its [13:31] present uh associate in its present association with the empire it's going to find that increasingly [13:40] untenable as have kuwait as has qatar as has the uae despite their claims to the contrary as has even [13:49] oman and certainly bahrain which i'm told now is pretty much a basket case of a country if it ever was [13:58] a country um so you've got this entire fabric un unraveling in the gulf all of which consequentially [14:09] is going to force us out of the gulf going to force us out of the southwest asia i think [14:15] the saudis are going to be left holding the bag and they think they're holding a bag that includes [14:20] a nuclear agreement that will allow them to do whatever they want to do in the future with their [14:25] nuclear program and and so forth and so on and even trump has negated that in a sense by saying no [14:32] it's only if you agree to sign up to the abraham accords and they're not going to do that as long as [14:37] they're holding forth that a viable route to a palestinian state is a necessity first and foremost [14:44] before they do that do they back off that and what happens to their street if they back off that who knows [14:51] this is all full of variables that all point at one the united states being kicked out of the region [14:58] two the gulf cooperation countries not being a shadow even of their former self three saudi arabia [15:05] having to think hard about its existence and its uh relationship with the empire and four [15:11] as i've said before global conflict all aided and abetted by the little characters messing around [15:20] in these two seminal conflicts in central europe and southwest asia the one a war of choice the [15:28] one in southwest asia by stupid ignorant idiot of a president and the other a war of choice by proxy by a [15:37] stupid idiot president called joe biden lay the blame at the feet of washington if you will but europe [15:46] has been very helpful especially london paris and berlin there you mentioned bahrain and kuwait in [16:00] it seems that the ongoing war is turning them in my opinion as if they decide to continue this war [16:06] they're going to be turned into a desert in these two countries bahrain already is i think i mean i i've [16:13] seen some pictures of the destruction there oh i mean and and look at what it did to us i mean it took about [16:21] that that and jordan took about all of our if not all of our early warning capacity away we no longer [16:28] have any early warning capacity to say oh wow you know they're doing that that missile's coming [16:34] towards jordan or that missile's coming towards bahrain or it's gone we don't have any early warning [16:39] capacity anymore do you think the leadership in saudi arabia understands that they're on the path of [16:51] becoming ukraine 2.0 in my opinion because ukraine you you know how ukraine was before this war [16:57] started the war between russia and ukraine started look at ukraine today nothing left yeah i don't [17:04] know if we can call it ukraine anymore no i don't either i don't and if if odessa really really goes [17:12] as it were and the ports around her odessa being the most important one um it's it's not just a rump [17:20] state it's a basket case it's a basket case