April 8, 2026 • 17 mins
I said it at the beginning of this thing. I’ve been laying out the landscape for this day for years. Yes, the Iran war is and has been about preventing Iran’s ability to prosecute a nuclear war, however it was never just about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. It’s just the jumping off point for how we got here and the bigger picture that’s been in play since President Trump made Maduro go away.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Brian Mudd Show, and thank you for listening.
It's time for today's Top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Are you not entertained, Hey, Joel's a little bit entertained.
Joel's a lot. I'm more relieved today.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, you know, And you were right, you said earlier,
because I was looking last evening when this whole thing
was announced about an hour after and I took a
look at the futures, the stock futures, and you said
this morning it had gone even high. I hadn't looked again,
and it has gone especially. I'm looking at the doubt
futures that gosh, almost twelve hundred points up right now.
(00:51):
They were around eight nine hundred at the time I looked. So, yeah,
I think the market likes what's going on.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I'm going to give you a little bit of that
heads up. I fully expected.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
This would take place yesterday, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And so what I did in my Top three takeaways,
which I put together for you actually midday yesterday. This
has always been about preventing World War three. This is
the theme of my Top three takeaways today. I did
not think that we would have Trump devastating Iran let me,
(01:31):
by the way, tell you what I do think Plan
B was. I'll just go ahead and give you what
I Let's say that Iran had not agreed to it.
I did believe that Iran was going to agree to it.
And one of the reasons I thought that is, I
know Donald Trump did not want to eliminate every Iranian
within the country, the civilization. I don't think he would
(01:52):
have said that if he felt like he had to act.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
On that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Art of the deal material.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Again, I've read the book a lot of people, and
including those in news video, it would serve them, well
they read the book.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I mean, it's pretty dire.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
When it came out, it's kind of like, oh, that
just happened, But it did pretty quickly hit me. He
would not have done that if he felt like he
had to fall through on that to day o'clock tonight.
He also knows the implications of it. So and then
putting that together, I'm like, they got to be getting
pretty close to something here, and then you take a
look at all, right, well, let's put the bigger picture
(02:32):
about what's come together here together. So that is what
I'm going to do for you today. In my top
three takeaways. What this is really about My top takeaway,
and I'll walk you back to the presser.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
On Monday when President Trump said this, we won. Okay,
they are militarily defeated.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
The only thing they have is the psychology of, oh,
we're go to drop a couple of minds in the water,
all right now, we I mean, we have a concept
where will George Tools. One of the mistakes that people
make about Donald Trump is that they know he is
a serial exaggerator, that he says things that are for
effect frequently, and they don't actually pay attention to the
(03:21):
nuances of what he says. Joel, Does Donald Trump in
fact around the hyperbole, mean what he say and says
what he means?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, absolutely he does. Does he follow through on what
he says he's going to do? Yeah, Like no president
I've seen in my lifetime. He always does what he
says he's going to do every single time. So when
he said we've won, all they've got is a little
(03:58):
psychology about you know, a couple minds in the strait.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
What did that tell you? On Monday?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We're basically there, right, And so it was all about
just tying up the pieces Yesterday and people get themselves
so focused on their view of the world because they
don't think the way that Donald Trump is. The rest
of us couldn't begin to negotiate the way that the
(04:24):
man can, and so it all gets spun through that fashion,
and the big picture in all of this is missed.
This has always been about peace. Trump himself has said this.
He said in that press room Monday again, this is
actually about peace.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I've been doing this for twenty eight years, from Clinton's
impeachment to Florida two thousand to nine to eleven, the
financial crisis, COVID, you name it, covered every major story
along the way. And the thing is, not only is
every historically signific story unique. One lesson that I've learned
(05:05):
is to be surprised, because no historically significant story is
ever going to play out exactly the way you might think.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
For example, during Bill Clinton's impeachment, was your expectation that
Bill Clinton would have been able to lie directly about
having an affair with the staffer in the Oval office,
no less, be impeachport and then come out the other
end more popular than before.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
No, right, that happened.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
In Florida two thousand, was it your expectation on election
night we'd spend the next thirty four days debating dimple
pregnant and hanging chads with the world focused on Palm
Beach counties and competencies that would only eventually be settled
with a five to four Landmarks Supreme Court decision.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
No, in fact, in my intro to election coverage that night,
it's the most infamous thing I think I've ever said
on air. Starting the election coverage on Election Night two thousand,
I infamously said that I will stay with you on
the air until we have a winter declared. I broadcasted
(06:20):
from seven PM until three am, and then picked up
again at five am. I could do that because I
was young. I wouldn't be able to do that quite
the same way. At this one held thing, a nine
to eleven None of us knew what to expect. One
of the things I most remember in the few days
after nine to eleven a Gallup poll the first poll
(06:44):
that came out, and it showed that within that first week,
ninety percent of Americans expected another nine to eleven style
of tair attack to be attempted within the United States
within the next year.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That was the.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Expectation, it's going to happen to us again, sooner rather
than later. During the onset of the housing crisis, did
you anticipate that it would trigger a financial crisis that
would lead to the greatest economic decline in this country
since the Great Depression? At the onset of the pandemic,
did you actually think you'd someday see a six mass
(07:20):
hermit praying to Anthony Fauci See the look at Chol's face. Yeah,
three masks, but not the six. Generalize that people would
begin praying to vouch. And so here's the thing. When
(07:41):
President Trump posted this on Truth yesterday, a whole civilization
will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I
don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However,
now that we have complete and total regime change, we're different, smarter.
Unless radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
We will find out tonight one of the most important
moments in the long and complex history of the world.
Forty seven years of extortion, corruption and death will finally end.
God bless the great people of Iran.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah, and the middle part of that and I guess
this is probably of course yes, But that was a
message to Iran, is what that? Right? That's what that.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I emphasized that when it broke during the show yesterday,
I specifically focused on that. And by the way, God
blessed the great people of Iran. He finishes with that,
because I'm about to blow you up tonight. I mean,
yeah again, people don't read the book. They need to
read the book. The one thing that I expected was
(08:53):
to be surprised, and that's because even Trump, who was
in greater control of the outcome than anyone, clearly expressed
that there were some uncertainty about how things would go.
But the one thing that did not surprise me going
into the day was that really this was all about
(09:14):
preventing World War three. See I knew that's what this
was always about, which is what gave me the comments.
It's the details, right, it's exactly how this is going
to go down. That can be surprising. It's Trump posting
something like that the morning of. That's a little bit surprising, right,
something that says a whole civilization will die tonight. I
(09:34):
will say I did not have that on my bingo card.
And then the freak out factor from people all around
the world all day. Oh my gosh, Trump's gonna go nukem.
It's gonna drop a bomb, drop a nuke on them.
Do you notice, by the way, that nobody actually even
tried to suss that out. Like for all the people
that talked about Trump wiping out the whole civilization of
(09:56):
Iran yesterday, nobody actually provided analysis about how that would happen. No,
they just take it as you know, because the only
way you could actually do that would be what trying
to muke it? Yeah, which by the way would not
be contained either. So what are we going to do
new Golf of our friends over there to I mean,
it's just it was not intelligent the irrational to think.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But that's what happens. People get emotional.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
So yeah, I was surprised by the getting there.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I've learned that.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Because we don't know exactly how things are going to
go and Tromp didn't know exactly how it is going
to go down, So his final twisting at the arm
is is that. But again, my second takeaway preventing World
War three, by the way, I paid difference. I mentioned
this on Monday. A lot of people want to get
sideways with the pope.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I am not.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I had very specific thoughts about Francis not somebody that
I miss as as being pope, but Leo. I think
Is has a lot of trades that are better than Francis's.
A lot of people on the right have continued to
get sideways with them. I will say this, after having
(11:12):
been pretty non specific about his desire for peace, as
I pointed out by the way, you know Russia is
still in Ukraine, he did get more specific. He became
animated by the whole civilization will die tonight. Thing yesterday,
And I will say to Popolio for you as well,
(11:32):
my papal friend, the art of the deal, the art
of the deal. He did say this yesterday.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
And let's remember especially the innocent children, the elderly, sick,
so many people who have already become or will become
victims of this continued warfare.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
So that's exactly what Trump did by preventing world worthree.
By the way, I mentioned the I think a reference
the contingency. I never did explain what it was. I
think his contingency if things didn't actually come together, But
I know that he knew they were going to before
he said all that yesterday. I think the contingency, it's
(12:15):
why we started out bombing Craug Island. I think would
have been to put boots on the ground there to
take that thing open. That way we could reopen the
straight say we've taken the oil, and then declared victory.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Just as an aside, I do think that was a contingent.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It wasn't actually nuking Iran yesterday. So I said it
at the beginning of this thing, that this was about
preventing World War three. I've been laying out the landscape
for this day for years. Yes, the Iran War is
and has been about preventing Iran's ability to prosecute a
nuclear war. However, it was never just about Iran's nuclear ambitions.
(12:51):
It's just the jumping off point for how we got
here and the bigger picture that's been in place since
President Trump made Majuro go away. Consider that Germany's population
was only three percent of the world's population at the
onset of the Second World War, and just as Hitler's
ambitions kicked off World War Two, its alliances with Italy
and Japan are what led to the peak of Axis
(13:13):
power in nineteen forty two, when thirty percent of the
world's population found itself under access control. Again, if you
want to know how bad things got during World War
two three percent, that's where Germany started out. The access
powers had accumulated thirty percent of the world's population at
(13:34):
its peak, a directly impacted population of people that was
literally ten times bigger than world where the world began.
And as we take account of what's in play today
and the new state of play, quick refresh as to
what brought us to this point. As I've discussed for
many years, a new group of access powers has emerged
in the world because China is and just China, China
(13:56):
is Russia, China is Iran, China is North Korea, which
has what it recommend that guy China has been Venezuela
in Cuba and Nicaragua.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Two.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's an access network that already controls twenty one percent
of the world's population. Did you know, remember Germany started
at three China, through accumulating this whole alliance of new
access powers without war, got to twenty one percent. A
lot of that has to do because China's most populous
(14:28):
country in the world. Representing the population it's actually greater
than five times larger than that of Germany as a
percentage of the world population preceding World War Two. So
the best way to defeat China in war is hell,
it's to never allow one to start. As have indicated previously,
(14:48):
President Trump has been highly intentional in working to combat
the potential for World War three since the onset of
his second presidency. His first foreign mission was to the
Middle East, where he met with a Saudi Arabia and
the UAE, seeking to realign those countries with US and
Israeli interest as opposed to China's access interest. Next, he
(15:10):
attempted to win over Putin and in the Ukrainian War,
which didn't happen, but it did set the stage for
what came next. Rather than working from top to bottom
to undo the Axis powers, Trump decided to control what
he would be able to control by working from the
bottom up.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
First. A word from a Democrat rising.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Star tds or California Democrat Rokana to Fox News yesterday.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Would Ronald Reagan have ever done that?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Would any other American president have ever threatened to wipe
out ninety one million people?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I don't think Reagan did that At the height of
the Cold War.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I guess y or probably didn't do that, even when
we were fighting Nazism.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
How stupid is that guy sound this morning? You're right.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
No other president would have done that, No other president
than it could do what Trump does. Is that remarkably
good at this Venezuela is home to the world's largest
oil reserves, and eighty percent of Venezuela's oil supply was
sent to China, with much of the rest of its
(16:17):
to Cuba. That was when Madua was still in power.
When Maduro was made by President Trump to go missing,
the oil stopped shipping to China and Cuba. Instead, it's
coming to the US, and that's serving to collapse the
legacy Castro regime in Cuba, while also sitting China scrambling
for additional energy. That was especially true when Ran became
(16:38):
the target Trump hit next. More oil goes to China
from the Strait of Hormus than anywhere else, and since
the onset of the war with Iran, factoring in the
loss of oil from Venezuela, forty nine percent of China's
oil supply has run dry. It's hard to imagine what
life would be like in this country if we suddenly
(16:59):
lost half our energy. But that is what's been in
played for the past six weeks in China, as they
had a way what came next. The bottom line is
that China literally doesn't have the energy, the power of
their country, and to also fight an extensive war with
Russia predisposed with Ukraine attacking Iran and winning that war.
To control the flow of oil out of this rait
(17:21):
on our terms is the key to keeping China on
the sidelines and preventing World War three. That's what this
is all about. That's what it's always been about. That's
how the story ends, preventing another World war. It's always
just been about the getting there. That's been highly surprising.
And by the way, I wrote that entire thing before
(17:43):
any of this happened last night, because again I've read
the book. I know President Trump, I knew how this
story ended. It was just the details in the getting there.
Welcome to the Brian Mudd Show, and thank you for listening.
It's time for today's Top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Are you not entertained, Hey, Joel's a little bit entertained.
Joel's a lot. I'm more relieved today.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah, you know, And you were right, you said earlier,
because I was looking last evening when this whole thing
was announced about an hour after and I took a
look at the futures, the stock futures, and you said
this morning it had gone even high. I hadn't looked again,
and it has gone especially. I'm looking at the doubt
futures that gosh, almost twelve hundred points up right now.
(00:51):
They were around eight nine hundred at the time I looked. So, yeah,
I think the market likes what's going on.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I'm going to give you a little bit of that
heads up. I fully expected.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
This would take place yesterday, okay.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And so what I did in my Top three takeaways,
which I put together for you actually midday yesterday. This
has always been about preventing World War three. This is
the theme of my Top three takeaways today. I did
not think that we would have Trump devastating Iran let me,
(01:31):
by the way, tell you what I do think Plan
B was. I'll just go ahead and give you what
I Let's say that Iran had not agreed to it.
I did believe that Iran was going to agree to it.
And one of the reasons I thought that is, I
know Donald Trump did not want to eliminate every Iranian
within the country, the civilization. I don't think he would
(01:52):
have said that if he felt like he had to act.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
On that.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Art of the deal material.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Again, I've read the book a lot of people, and
including those in news video, it would serve them, well
they read the book.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I mean, it's pretty dire.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
When it came out, it's kind of like, oh, that
just happened, But it did pretty quickly hit me. He
would not have done that if he felt like he
had to fall through on that to day o'clock tonight.
He also knows the implications of it. So and then
putting that together, I'm like, they got to be getting
pretty close to something here, and then you take a
look at all, right, well, let's put the bigger picture
(02:32):
about what's come together here together. So that is what
I'm going to do for you today. In my top
three takeaways. What this is really about My top takeaway,
and I'll walk you back to the presser.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
On Monday when President Trump said this, we won. Okay,
they are militarily defeated.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
The only thing they have is the psychology of, oh,
we're go to drop a couple of minds in the water,
all right now, we I mean, we have a concept
where will George Tools. One of the mistakes that people
make about Donald Trump is that they know he is
a serial exaggerator, that he says things that are for
effect frequently, and they don't actually pay attention to the
(03:21):
nuances of what he says. Joel, Does Donald Trump in
fact around the hyperbole, mean what he say and says
what he means?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, absolutely he does. Does he follow through on what
he says he's going to do? Yeah, Like no president
I've seen in my lifetime. He always does what he
says he's going to do every single time. So when
he said we've won, all they've got is a little
(03:58):
psychology about you know, a couple minds in the strait.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
What did that tell you? On Monday?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
We're basically there, right, And so it was all about
just tying up the pieces Yesterday and people get themselves
so focused on their view of the world because they
don't think the way that Donald Trump is. The rest
of us couldn't begin to negotiate the way that the
(04:24):
man can, and so it all gets spun through that fashion,
and the big picture in all of this is missed.
This has always been about peace. Trump himself has said this.
He said in that press room Monday again, this is
actually about peace.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I've been doing this for twenty eight years, from Clinton's
impeachment to Florida two thousand to nine to eleven, the
financial crisis, COVID, you name it, covered every major story
along the way. And the thing is, not only is
every historically signific story unique. One lesson that I've learned
(05:05):
is to be surprised, because no historically significant story is
ever going to play out exactly the way you might think.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
For example, during Bill Clinton's impeachment, was your expectation that
Bill Clinton would have been able to lie directly about
having an affair with the staffer in the Oval office,
no less, be impeachport and then come out the other
end more popular than before.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
No, right, that happened.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
In Florida two thousand, was it your expectation on election
night we'd spend the next thirty four days debating dimple
pregnant and hanging chads with the world focused on Palm
Beach counties and competencies that would only eventually be settled
with a five to four Landmarks Supreme Court decision.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
No, in fact, in my intro to election coverage that night,
it's the most infamous thing I think I've ever said
on air. Starting the election coverage on Election Night two thousand,
I infamously said that I will stay with you on
the air until we have a winter declared. I broadcasted
(06:20):
from seven PM until three am, and then picked up
again at five am. I could do that because I
was young. I wouldn't be able to do that quite
the same way. At this one held thing, a nine
to eleven None of us knew what to expect. One
of the things I most remember in the few days
after nine to eleven a Gallup poll the first poll
(06:44):
that came out, and it showed that within that first week,
ninety percent of Americans expected another nine to eleven style
of tair attack to be attempted within the United States
within the next year.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That was the.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Expectation, it's going to happen to us again, sooner rather
than later. During the onset of the housing crisis, did
you anticipate that it would trigger a financial crisis that
would lead to the greatest economic decline in this country
since the Great Depression? At the onset of the pandemic,
did you actually think you'd someday see a six mass
(07:20):
hermit praying to Anthony Fauci See the look at Chol's face. Yeah,
three masks, but not the six. Generalize that people would
begin praying to vouch. And so here's the thing. When
(07:41):
President Trump posted this on Truth yesterday, a whole civilization
will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I
don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However,
now that we have complete and total regime change, we're different, smarter.
Unless radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Who knows.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
We will find out tonight one of the most important
moments in the long and complex history of the world.
Forty seven years of extortion, corruption and death will finally end.
God bless the great people of Iran.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah, and the middle part of that and I guess
this is probably of course yes, But that was a
message to Iran, is what that? Right? That's what that.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I emphasized that when it broke during the show yesterday,
I specifically focused on that. And by the way, God
blessed the great people of Iran. He finishes with that,
because I'm about to blow you up tonight. I mean,
yeah again, people don't read the book. They need to
read the book. The one thing that I expected was
(08:53):
to be surprised, and that's because even Trump, who was
in greater control of the outcome than anyone, clearly expressed
that there were some uncertainty about how things would go.
But the one thing that did not surprise me going
into the day was that really this was all about
(09:14):
preventing World War three. See I knew that's what this
was always about, which is what gave me the comments.
It's the details, right, it's exactly how this is going
to go down. That can be surprising. It's Trump posting
something like that the morning of. That's a little bit surprising, right,
something that says a whole civilization will die tonight. I
(09:34):
will say I did not have that on my bingo card.
And then the freak out factor from people all around
the world all day. Oh my gosh, Trump's gonna go nukem.
It's gonna drop a bomb, drop a nuke on them.
Do you notice, by the way, that nobody actually even
tried to suss that out. Like for all the people
that talked about Trump wiping out the whole civilization of
(09:56):
Iran yesterday, nobody actually provided analysis about how that would happen. No,
they just take it as you know, because the only
way you could actually do that would be what trying
to muke it? Yeah, which by the way would not
be contained either. So what are we going to do
new Golf of our friends over there to I mean,
it's just it was not intelligent the irrational to think.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
But that's what happens. People get emotional.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
So yeah, I was surprised by the getting there.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I've learned that.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Because we don't know exactly how things are going to
go and Tromp didn't know exactly how it is going
to go down, So his final twisting at the arm
is is that. But again, my second takeaway preventing World
War three, by the way, I paid difference. I mentioned
this on Monday. A lot of people want to get
sideways with the pope.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
I am not.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I had very specific thoughts about Francis not somebody that
I miss as as being pope, but Leo. I think
Is has a lot of trades that are better than Francis's.
A lot of people on the right have continued to
get sideways with them. I will say this, after having
(11:12):
been pretty non specific about his desire for peace, as
I pointed out by the way, you know Russia is
still in Ukraine, he did get more specific. He became
animated by the whole civilization will die tonight. Thing yesterday,
And I will say to Popolio for you as well,
(11:32):
my papal friend, the art of the deal, the art
of the deal. He did say this yesterday.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
And let's remember especially the innocent children, the elderly, sick,
so many people who have already become or will become
victims of this continued warfare.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
So that's exactly what Trump did by preventing world worthree.
By the way, I mentioned the I think a reference
the contingency. I never did explain what it was. I
think his contingency if things didn't actually come together, But
I know that he knew they were going to before
he said all that yesterday. I think the contingency, it's
(12:15):
why we started out bombing Craug Island. I think would
have been to put boots on the ground there to
take that thing open. That way we could reopen the
straight say we've taken the oil, and then declared victory.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Just as an aside, I do think that was a contingent.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It wasn't actually nuking Iran yesterday. So I said it
at the beginning of this thing, that this was about
preventing World War three. I've been laying out the landscape
for this day for years. Yes, the Iran War is
and has been about preventing Iran's ability to prosecute a
nuclear war. However, it was never just about Iran's nuclear ambitions.
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It's just the jumping off point for how we got
here and the bigger picture that's been in place since
President Trump made Majuro go away. Consider that Germany's population
was only three percent of the world's population at the
onset of the Second World War, and just as Hitler's
ambitions kicked off World War Two, its alliances with Italy
and Japan are what led to the peak of Axis
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power in nineteen forty two, when thirty percent of the
world's population found itself under access control. Again, if you
want to know how bad things got during World War
two three percent, that's where Germany started out. The access
powers had accumulated thirty percent of the world's population at
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its peak, a directly impacted population of people that was
literally ten times bigger than world where the world began.
And as we take account of what's in play today
and the new state of play, quick refresh as to
what brought us to this point. As I've discussed for
many years, a new group of access powers has emerged
in the world because China is and just China, China
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is Russia, China is Iran, China is North Korea, which
has what it recommend that guy China has been Venezuela
in Cuba and Nicaragua.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Two.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It's an access network that already controls twenty one percent
of the world's population. Did you know, remember Germany started
at three China, through accumulating this whole alliance of new
access powers without war, got to twenty one percent. A
lot of that has to do because China's most populous
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country in the world. Representing the population it's actually greater
than five times larger than that of Germany as a
percentage of the world population preceding World War Two. So
the best way to defeat China in war is hell,
it's to never allow one to start. As have indicated previously,
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President Trump has been highly intentional in working to combat
the potential for World War three since the onset of
his second presidency. His first foreign mission was to the
Middle East, where he met with a Saudi Arabia and
the UAE, seeking to realign those countries with US and
Israeli interest as opposed to China's access interest. Next, he
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attempted to win over Putin and in the Ukrainian War,
which didn't happen, but it did set the stage for
what came next. Rather than working from top to bottom
to undo the Axis powers, Trump decided to control what
he would be able to control by working from the
bottom up.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
First. A word from a Democrat rising.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Star tds or California Democrat Rokana to Fox News yesterday.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Would Ronald Reagan have ever done that?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Would any other American president have ever threatened to wipe
out ninety one million people?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I don't think Reagan did that At the height of
the Cold War.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I guess y or probably didn't do that, even when
we were fighting Nazism.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
How stupid is that guy sound this morning? You're right.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
No other president would have done that, No other president
than it could do what Trump does. Is that remarkably
good at this Venezuela is home to the world's largest
oil reserves, and eighty percent of Venezuela's oil supply was
sent to China, with much of the rest of its
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to Cuba. That was when Madua was still in power.
When Maduro was made by President Trump to go missing,
the oil stopped shipping to China and Cuba. Instead, it's
coming to the US, and that's serving to collapse the
legacy Castro regime in Cuba, while also sitting China scrambling
for additional energy. That was especially true when Ran became
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the target Trump hit next. More oil goes to China
from the Strait of Hormus than anywhere else, and since
the onset of the war with Iran, factoring in the
loss of oil from Venezuela, forty nine percent of China's
oil supply has run dry. It's hard to imagine what
life would be like in this country if we suddenly
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lost half our energy. But that is what's been in
played for the past six weeks in China, as they
had a way what came next. The bottom line is
that China literally doesn't have the energy, the power of
their country, and to also fight an extensive war with
Russia predisposed with Ukraine attacking Iran and winning that war.
To control the flow of oil out of this rait
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on our terms is the key to keeping China on
the sidelines and preventing World War three. That's what this
is all about. That's what it's always been about. That's
how the story ends, preventing another World war. It's always
just been about the getting there. That's been highly surprising.
And by the way, I wrote that entire thing before
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any of this happened last night, because again I've read
the book. I know President Trump, I knew how this
story ended. It was just the details in the getting there.
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