Trump’s Deep State War with Iran

0:00Irreverent news talk, opinion, satire. It's Newsweek Radio. I'm Jesse Edwards. Let's browse today's top trending headlines at Newsweek. Yes, because kids love headlines from Newsweek. The number one story trending right now is U.S. scrambles fighter jets after Russian anti-submarine planes are intercepted. Danger, Will Robinson. Danger. Yeah, brace yourselves. NORAD has detected fighter jets in response to Russian military aircraft that were detected near Alaska. Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria. No, no, no. Calm down. Don't worry. There's nothing to be alarmed about because this happens almost every day.

0:35At least a weekly occurrence. Look, I think we're all understandably a little bit nervous about everything now that Trump kicked the Iran hornets' nest into the playground and clearly doesn't have any plans beyond that about what to do with it. Experts have been warning about this exact situation for decades now, and the only thing that we can use to predict how this situation in Iran might unfold is by looking to our past involvement in regime change across the globe over the last hundred years as the United States. We helped Iran overthrow their elected government once already back in 1953. That worked out great for long-term stability, didn't it?

1:10Yes, slow golf clap for the United States on that one. How about Guatemala in 1954? Democracy removed, dictatorship installed, and a 30-year civil war followed. Do you remember Cuba in 1961? The Bay of Pigs disaster changed global perception of American competence forever. What about Vietnam in 1963? We backed a coup against our own ally and somehow still ended up fighting the war by ourselves. If that's not enough for you, what about Chile, 1973, democracy out, Pinochet in? And decades of arguments about whether the cure was worse than the disease. There's always Afghanistan back in the 1980s.

1:47We armed the rebels to fight the Soviets and 40 years later, the Taliban is still in control. What about Nicaragua in the 1980s? No, I don't actually say it like that. I say Nicaragua, but I thought I'd NPR it up for just a second. Nicaragua. The Contras, the covert funding, just a reminder that proxy wars are still wars. Iraq, 2003, regime change accomplished. Regional stability not included in the tow package. Libya, 2011 with Gaddafi. Syria in the 2010s, it never ends. And yet there are still Trump loyalists who insist that we're not getting bogged down in a ground war here when Trump and his own defense secretary, not going to call him the Secretary of War, won't commit to it.

2:24Secretary of War is just stupid. It's the Defense Department. Are there currently any American boots on the ground in Iran? No, but we're not going to go into the exercise of what we will or will not do. I'm guessing boots on the ground by next week are the following. You can't just torch the place with Tomahawk missiles and walk away. They know that's not how any of this works. Because they're pirates now, and to the victors go the spoils. You do realize how many private contractors are chomping at the bit like rabbit Rottweilers right now to get in there and start nation building on behalf of the United States, don't you?

2:56There's no stopping that flow of cold hard cash at this point. That's what the entire war machine's all about, baby. Well, you know that and global security, but whatever. No, the Iranians should not have access to anything radioactive because they'll just make bombs with it if they haven't already. Just look at how they randomly shoot missiles at everybody involved in this situation right now. So the U.S. and Israel fire the opening shots and Iran responds by hitting the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan, Iraq, and even Azerbaijan, or as our president prefers to call it, Abur-bai-jan.

3:29Abur-bai-jan. Abur-bai-jan. This war would have happened regardless of who the president is right now. Kamala Harris is just the same. I will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to defend our forces and our interests against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists. Take whatever action necessary. That's the exact same language that Hegseth and Trump are using right now. We'll go as far as we need to go. Right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks. But we have capability to go far longer than that. We'll do it. Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, if the president wants to do it really quickly after that, he'll get bored.

4:13I don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this. Do you agree with that, Pete? I don't think there's anything, Mr. General, I think there's nothing boring about it. Oh, we're going to war now for Trump's own personal entertainment on top of a deflection from the Epstein files. But even Joe Biden said that we were going to free Iran four years ago, back in 2002. Don't worry, we're going to free Iran. They're going to free themselves pretty soon. Oh, and don't forget Hillary Clinton back in 2008. We would be able to totally, totally obliterate them. Obliterated. That's a terrible thing to say.

4:44Totally obliterated. Don't tell me that invading Iran wasn't part of the deep state plan all along. Bettering your business takes working with the best. With the James Hardy Alliance, you gain access to leads, training, networking, and support from the number one brand of siding in North America. Achieve new levels of success by joining the James Hardy Alliance today. Now let's talk about what I actually mean by the deep state because I'm not talking about some secret room full of lizard people and I'm certainly not trying to out Alex Jones Alex Jones. What people casually call the deep state is really just the permanent machinery of American power that exists regardless of who wins the election every four years.

5:24Presidents come and go, the institutions do not. You've got the Pentagon, you've got the intelligence agencies, you've got the foreign policy establishment in Washington that's been cycling between think tanks and defense contractors and the State Department and cable news studios for the last 40 years. You have weapons of industry that make hundreds of billions of dollars selling the tools of war. Lobbying networks and foreign policy think tanks that shape the conversation before a president even walks into the Oval Office. None of these groups sit around plotting world domination together in a smoke-filled room.

5:56But they do all operate in the same ecosystem. That is not conspiracy theory. It's the foreign policy establishment doing exactly what it was built to do. And that's why, even as a never-Trump conservative, I refuse to lay all of this at the swollen orange cankles of our terrible president. I think my pivot here is try to forget about the war with Iran. Anyhow, easier said than done. But it was clearly inevitable. Right now, it's more important than ever to remain steadfast and focused on the Epstein files, to be blunt about it, because that's the one place where Trump clearly does not want any of us looking.

6:28And oh hey, what a big surprise. The redacted and incomplete files that the DOJ did post online have been quietly and conveniently disappearing since Trump and Netanyahu kicked off the overture with the war on Iran. And there it is, missiles in the Middle East, fighter jets over Alaska, wall-to-wall coverage of the next war like it's the Super Bowl. And meanwhile, in the Epstein Files, the one story that might actually embarrass people from across politics, finance, and media, quietly start disappearing back into the bureaucratic abyss. Funny how that works, ain't it? Don't let it happen. Keep your eyes on the paperwork.

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7:40We will have prosperity and peace. We will have prosperity and we will have peace. Remember, I'm the president of peace. They said he will start a war. I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars. He's going to start a war. I said, no, no, no. My rhetoric is going to keep us out of wars. And that's what happened. My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker. That's what I want to be, a peacemaker. We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end and perhaps most importantly the wars we never get into.