Практика Shadowing: Max Blumenthal on the Israeli network in the White House - Изучайте разговорный английский с YouTube

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We welcome here in the studio journalist Max Blumenthal.
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We welcome here in the studio journalist Max Blumenthal.
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He is editor-in-chief of The Gray Zone.
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Max, great to have you with us.
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Good to see you.
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I want to get to the attacks on civilian infrastructure in a moment.
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But first, you know, listening or looking at some of these social media posts from President Trump,
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this tirade, this latest tirade against Iran, it's getting increasingly aggressive.
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Now it's profanity-laden tweets or X posts that he's sending out, social media posts.
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What does this tell you about the mood in the White House and this administration's efforts to take control of this conflict?
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Well, they've lost control of this conflict.
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Donald Trump is effectively a hostage of Iran.
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Along with his entire administration, he's surrounded by yes-men.
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The administration has descended into chaos because Donald Trump was sold by Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Remember when he was taking trip after trip to Washington,
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D.C., shutting down entire highways and Lindsey Graham was basically serving as Netanyahu's advisor on how to reach Trump.
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Trump was sold on a very easy war and a quick win after a series of decapitation strikes.
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And Trump was still on this sugar high after Venezuela.
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And meanwhile, he had figures like Laura Loomer,
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who enjoys more private time,
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this far-right influencer with Donald Trump than Trump's own wife Melania
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getting the NSC's top Iran expert Nate Swanson fired who had warned that the Strait of Hormuz would immediately be shut,
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the global economy would be sent spiraling,
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and Iran would retaliate with a regional war if it was attacked and these decapitation strikes were carried out.
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So Trump now has no idea what to do and he's resorted to terrorist threats and terrorist bombings,
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and he's discredited himself not just in the international community,
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but also among the so-called Iranian diaspora,
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which believed that help was on the way.
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CONNOR O' Concerning the Israeli role in this,
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I mean,
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there's quite a debate going on here in the United States
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on how involved Israel was in persuading the president to launch this war against Iran.
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We had the resignation of Joe Kent,
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the anti-terrorism chief, who came out and said,
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look, it was It was Israel that persuaded the president to launch this war.
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Do you think there is enough of a connection being made among American people of the role
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that Israel played and what the president is doing?
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Well, it's the American media that refuses to inform the American public about the extent to
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which this is entirely an Israeli war, with the U.S military essentially functioning as a proxy for Israeli interests.
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This was expressed by the Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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when he told the Gang of Eight after a Senate briefing that Israel was going to attack Iran,
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and the U.S simply had to follow it rather than stop it or restrain it.
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His predecessor, Tony Blinken, said Israel told Obama,
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we are going to attack,
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but Obama actually restrained Israel.
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This follows a long blueprint,
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starting with the inception of Benjamin Netanyahu's career as prime minister,
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found in the Clean Break document,
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which expresses the desire for Israel to get the U.S to attack Iran on its behalf
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because it doesn't have the military capacity to do so.
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When you look at the global economic damage where there are now effectively bread riots in Asia,
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we could see mass exodus of Gulf countries by the end of spring or summer.
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This is because of Israel and the Israeli capture of the Trump administration through top donors like Miriam Adelson.
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Donald Trump's top donor is effectively an Israeli proxy.
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He has funded Marco Rubio's career,
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along with another major Israel donor,
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Paul Singer, who is funding Donald Trump.
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Pretty much everyone surrounding Donald Trump has been supported by Israel,
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and they have been the ones.
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John Ratcliffe, the CIA director who's known as the Mossad stenographer,
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being briefed by his Mossad counterpart,
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David Barnea, on Iran being on the verge of getting nuclear weapons.
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Susie Wiles, a former advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu's reelection campaign in 2020,
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is chief of staff controlling access to Donald Trump.
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Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner,
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the chief negotiators, are hardcore Zionist ideologues.
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Everyone around Trump is representing Israeli interests,
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and everyone and most everyone in this country opposes this war because they don't understand what the American interest is,
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and Donald Trump is struggling to explain it.
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He said, well, I wanted to take their oil,
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but the American public doesn't want me to.
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Right.
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We are told, as the bombing continues,
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that President Trump watches the markets very closely every day to see what they are doing.
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Is there a sort of pain threshold where he will have to call it off because the markets are sinking so badly?
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Well, it hasn't hit home in the U.S because we have such a strong supply of LNG.
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The U.S is energy self-sufficient.
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It's hurting Asia right now.
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It's hurting North Africa.
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It's hurting these regions that Donald Trump doesn't necessarily care about.
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The pain threshold for Donald Trump will be political.
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It's when he starts to read the midterm polling numbers.
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And he himself is underwater.
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For an incumbent president at this stage in his presidency,
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he is at a historical low point.
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All he cares about is his own ambitions
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and his ability to loot the Treasury on behalf of his cronies and his family.
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And so when he sees that that is imperiled,
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then I think you're going to start seeing him pull back.
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And I think one of the biggest indicators for trouble for Donald Trump is that,
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and we all understood this would take place,
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those of us who know how Iran's military functions,
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those of us who know the basics,
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that they've been unable, with their Israeli counterparts,
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to degrade Iran's ballistic missile capacity and its drone production rate,
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which means that Iran can continue this war through the summer when the U.S will host the FIFA World Cup,
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which could be another political disaster for Donald Trump.
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And now the president is asking for a huge increase in military spending.
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For next year, the administration is asking for $1.5 trillion budget for the Pentagon.
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He's cutting other government programs as well while doing this.
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I mean, that raise that he's asking for is 40 percent.
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If approved by Congress, the United States will spend on military 50 percent more than the next 10 countries combined.
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Yeah.
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Actually, Donald Trump announced that in an Easter speech,
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which the White House deleted,
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because he said, we need to cut Medicare and Medicaid.
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We don't need those.
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That's in the way of us spending $1.5 trillion on our military.
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The money's not going to the military.
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25% or 6% of that budget actually goes to pay for soldiers to be overseas,
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to pay for veterans affairs.
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That money is going back to contractors,
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corrupt contractors that actually helped donate to Donald Trump.
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It's going to pay for the administrative affairs of Lockheed Martin and the Big Five.
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We're talking about 70 percent of that budget is just kickbacks to the upper middle class and upper class of this country.
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And so it's kind of a form,
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no offense to John Maynard Keynes,
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of military keynesianism the big problem also for donald trump is
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pete hegseth put forward this 200 billion dollar supplemental to pay for this crazy war
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that has no clear objectives the american public doesn't support that
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and i think a number of republican senators might even be forced to oppose
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that i mean remember the uproar over the 40 billion for
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ukraine this is outrageous talking of pete hexath uh he has forced the resignation
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or is in fact five yeah a number of very senior officials at the Pentagon.
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These include generals.
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The latest one was General Randy George,
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who is the Army Chief of Staff.
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What's behind that purge?
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Well, one of them was Army Chaplain,
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the head of the Army Chaplain Corps.
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And my theory there is that too many conscientious objectors were coming forward and saying,
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this violates my Christian beliefs,
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and he was signing off on their conscientious objector status.
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Then, I mean, they fired almost as many generals as they,
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as aircraft that they lost in those 48 hours.
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So this is a PR disaster.
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I don't think Pete Hegseth saw it coming.
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Pete Hegseth is trying to make the life of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll,
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who is seen as kind of a restrainer,
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hell, because he cannot fire Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.
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And Randy George was an ally of Driscoll and has suggested
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that Pete Hegseth is waging a dishonorable wore in an email to his men,
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I think there may have been some strong objections raised in private about what was to come,
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either a ground incursion or an attempt to steal Iran's uranium in a daring and crazy operation,
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one like the kind we might have just seen take place just south of Isfahan,
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in which the U.S lost,
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I don't know, five or six aircraft, two C-130s.
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Okay, Max, we are going to have to leave it there.
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Thanks so much for being with us.
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Thanks for having me.

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  • civilian infrastructure - гражданская инфраструктура
  • hostage of Iran - заложник Ирана
  • decapitation strikes - удары по главам
  • global economy - мировая экономика
  • proxy for Israeli interests - прокси для интересов Израиля
  • bread riots - хлебные бунты
  • restraint - сдержанность
  • anti-terrorism chief - руководитель по борьбе с терроризмом

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