Badlands Daily: 5/12/26 - Brennan Dog Whistles, Netanyahu Aid Bomb, NATO Fracturing

CannCon and Ghost open Tuesday's geopolitics-heavy show with Ghost leading the charge. John Brennan goes on MSNBC and openly tells embedded bureaucrats to hold the line, and James Comey follows with the same message minutes later, giving CannCon two dog whistles in one segment to unpack. Netanyahu tells 60 Minutes he wants to zero out the $3.8 billion in annual US military aid within a decade, and CannCon catches that he skipped the 2020 Trump meeting entirely in his timeline of conversations about Iran. Meanwhile, Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich says the war must end with Israel changing its borders to include Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank. Ghost breaks down the Knesset dissolution threat and why Netanyahu's only card left is reigniting the Iran war. The UAE is secretly attacking Iran while simultaneously begging Trump for a currency swap, as its banks hemorrhage hundreds of billions. Venezuela's oil is back at 2018 levels, global reserves are draining at a record pace from the Strait of Hormuz blockade, and Alaskan oil leases hit $163 million at auction. Ghost connects Trump's tariff history from McKinley through 1912 to today. Finnish president Stubb is profiled as a Western-groomed globalist, and a French presidential candidate calls for France to leave NATO.