The Trump Iran Deal is Genius & Changes The Game (+ Why We Need Sharia Law)

Malcolm Collins breaks down the Iran conflict and the Trump administration’s surprising diplomatic masterstroke that most pundits on both left and right completely misunderstood. Instead of “giving away money” or weakness, the deal creates powerful economic incentives and on-the-ground leverage from Iran’s angry neighbors (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, etc.) that makes cheating far more dangerous than the weak Obama deal.We also discuss why boots-on-the-ground predictions failed, Israel’s role, the collapse of Iran’s military and leadership, and the long-term strategic wins for America. Later in the episode, Malcolm makes a provocative case for allowing Sharia law applied specifically to Muslim communities in the West as a way to reduce crime, create a forcing function on integration, and let communities see the real preferences of high-fertility Islamic subgroups.A raw, high-signal conversation that challenges mainstream narratives on both foreign policy and domestic cultural issues.Show NotesHeadlines on June 17thhttps://drudgereport.com/OBAMA DEAL BETTER?TRUMP HUMILIATIONMAGA HAWK MUTINYTEXT LEAKSNY Times Above the Fold on Iran:Live Updates: Trump Speaks at G7 Sumit After Renewing Threats on Iran https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/17/world/g7-summit-trump-franceStars of Israel’s TV Channel for Bibi Fans Turn on Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/world/middleeast/israel-channel-14-trump-criticism.htmlYou have to click through on NY Times to get any “what’s going on with negotiations” update, and the headline is: What to Know About the U.S.-Iran Framework Agreement: The full text of the deal that could pave the way to ending the war has not been published. Initial details suggest that it defers the most contentious issues.Generally, from only scanning headlines, one gets the impression that Iran may be reaching some sort of conclusion, but it’s one unflattering to the Trump administration.What has happened as of June 17thA preliminary framework agreement (memorandum of understanding or MoU) was reached and virtually signed around June 14–15, 2026, between the US and Iran to pause the ongoing conflict.Key elements (based on public statements and reports; the full text has not been widely released yet):* Immediate ceasefire extension: Halts military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon. This builds on earlier shaky ceasefires (e.g., from April).* Reopening the Strait of Hormuz: Iran agrees to clear restrictions/mines; the US lifts its naval blockade of Iranian ports. Shipping has begun resuming, contributing to falling oil prices.* 60-day negotiation window: For broader issues, primarily Iran’s nuclear program (e.g., enrichment freeze or limits, sanctions relief). A formal signing ceremony is planned for June 19 in Switzerland (or possibly another venue).* Other reported aspects (with some conflicting claims): Possible phased sanctions relief, asset unfreezing, and a reconstruction fund (potentially $300 billion, mostly from Gulf states/private sources rather than direct US payments).The key point per Malcolm: The powers surrounding Iran being directly invested in its recovery and improvement, and Iran’s stable future being contingent on not pissing them off.Primarily Gulf Arab states (Iran’s key neighbors across the Persian Gulf), through a proposed private ~$300 billion Reconstruction and Development Fund, will be involved in Iran’s reconstructed and therefore directly invested in Iran going forwardDetails from the Framework Agreement* The fund is not direct US government money or reparations but a private investment vehicle designed to attract capital for Iran’s postwar recovery (infrastructure, energy, logistics, manufacturing, etc.).* Gulf states (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and others in the GCC) are positioned as primary backers or facilitators (”Gulf Coast Coalition”). They were attacked by Iran during the conflict and have a strong incentive for regional stability. Contributions could include loans, credit lines, or direct investments.* Why these neighbors?* Economic interdependence: Rebuilding Iran reduces future conflict risks, secures energy routes (e.g., Strait of Hormuz), and opens markets.* Mediation role: Qatar and Oman played key diplomatic roles; broader GCC involvement aligns with their security and economic goals.* Already committed: Over half the fund has pledges from companies in Gulf states, Asia, US, etc.Other international private investors (Asia, Europe, Africa, South America) are involved, but Gulf neighbors are emphasized for their direct stake and proximity.The fund unlocks only if Iran complies with nuclear limits, inspections, sanctions relief phases, and other terms. Full details await formal signing (expected ~June 19) and implementation. This structure gives neighbors leverage and investment upside in a stable Iran.What remains pending:* Israel getting on board: Netanyahu has indicated Israeli forces will not fully withdraw from Lebanon, creating friction.* How to work out sanctions and rule enforcement going forward: Loose ends on nuclear talks, sanctions, regional proxies, and enforcement. Trump has noted dissatisfaction could lead to resumed action.* Iran’s future armament: Iran’s nuclear capabilities, ballistic missiles, and broader regional influence are deferred.Is Iran Less of a Threat Today?Yes.Various ways Iran is nerfed:* Nuclear Program Setbacks:* US/Israeli strikes heavily damaged key enrichment facilities* (Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan) and related infrastructure.* While Iran retains some highly enriched uranium stockpiles and knowledge (underground elements were hard to fully destroy), its ability to rapidly advance toward a weapon has been delayed by months to a year or more.* The framework agreement includes commitments to non-proliferation and further talks on limits, reducing near-term breakout risk.* Ballistic Missiles and Conventional Forces:* Large portions of Iran’s missile launchers, production facilities, air defenses, naval assets, and drone capabilities were destroyed or degraded.* This limits its ability to project power, threaten US assets/bases, or sustain prolonged attacks.* Proxy responses (e.g., from Hezbollah, Houthis) were limited and ineffective in shifting the balance.* Economic and Logistical Pressure:* The conflict devastated Iran’s economy and defense industrial base. The recent agreement reopens the Strait of Hormuz (previously restricted by Iran, causing global oil disruptions) and lifts the US naval blockade, but under monitored terms with sanctions relief tied to compliance. This reduces Iran’s leverage via energy chokepoints while exposing it to ongoing oversight.* Leadership and Regime Strain:* Strikes targeted senior figures, command structures, and internal security (e.g., Basij bases), contributing to morale issues, desertions, and recruitment problems.* The regime survived but is in a more defensive, weakened posture.Episode TranscriptMalcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. I’m excited to be here with you today, and this is one of those days where I just need to be like- Everybody doesn’t seem to understand what happened at all, and I’m talking about on both the left and the right with this current deal with Iran, which is actually one of the more brilliant negotiated deals that I’ve seen maybe in the past 100 years in terms of us getting pretty much everything that we really want.And it’s shocking to me that you keep hearing, well, outright false claims that we’re giving them money, which we’re not. But money is involved, but in a way that really, really matters, and in a way that has a lot more teeth than the Obama deal did which is another thing that people are getting really wrong.So a bit of context, because I- I don’t even know if you fully understand, and I’m gonna get the, the gist of this out of the gate. The big problem we have with Iran and wanting to pull out of the war, right, is that Iran, due to something called a Mosaic Defense Force, [00:01:00] essentially split into independent warlords who don’t exactly follow what’s coming from the top.We know this because there was one instance where the president said that he apologized for all the strikes on other countries that are their allies presumably, and then the, a few days later he was like, “I, I, I didn’t say... I didn’t mean that. We’re not even doing that.” You know, which implied that one, they’re not listening to him, and two, the independent warlords have more power than he does in this arrangement, because he had to back down from this position.So this has led to a scenario where even when we do negotiate with people at the top, right? They can then th- they need to be able to, and in a, in a strong and forceful way, have a reason to tell all the people below, “Follow along and stay in line.” Right? And then we have the secondary problem with Iran, which is even if you make a deal with them like Obama did, they basically just ignore it, like they did with the Obama deal.Because the enforcement of that deal was that you know, the [00:02:00] UN or whatever would send its inspectors in, and Iran just wouldn’t show the inspectors the, the places where this is at, freaking obviously, right? Like we’re, how are they gonna figure that out, right? So that creates a huge negative incentive.Speaker: Mr. Eel, I was supposed to be allowed to inspect your palace today, and your guards won’t let me into certain areas. Hans, Hans, Hans, we’ve been through this a dozen times. I don’t have any weapons of mass destruction..I’m sorry, but the UN must be firm with you. Let me see your whole palace or else.Speaker 2: Or else what?Speaker: Or else we will be very, very angry with you, and we will write you a letter telling you how angry we are.Malcolm Collins: Okay. So functionally, what Trump created was a scenario in which and Iran helped him do this. They made a number of enormous miscalculations that made this deal possible that is just so bad for Iran and people don’t get it at all. So, [00:03:00] the miscalculation, the big one that they made that is almost baffling unless you understand that there were rogue actors within the country o- operating this Mosaic Defense Force and just basically trying to The, the, the reason why they were sending more missiles at, like, Qatar and the UAE and Saudi Arabia and, like, their, their freaking allies than even Oman, who’s been one of their closest allies forever, than Israel, is because that didn’t get you scorecards in the, in the battleship of the dictators, right?And so this led them to attack. A- and keep in mind, by the way, what the, the right grifters who lie to you all the time, like the anti-Israel right grifters and the leftist said it this word, they said, “This is gonna end up with boots on the ground, huge, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers dying in Iran, that the stock markets are gonna crash,” highest they’ve ever been.That oil is gonna go to $200 a barrel. Did not happen. You know, and, and when I came out here with all of this, and I told you where I thought this war was gonna go, I’ve been pretty much exactly accurate. Okay? Yeah. So keep this in mind when you’re thinking of your [00:04:00] sources and where you take, like, interest- like, your information from, right?Right. Because some people are manipulating you and playing you for stupid. But anyway, so it ended up with a scenario where- A lot of these countries have historically ... Well, they were in conflict. Like, Saudi Arabia’s not Iran’s ally. Like, they, they do hate each other. But other players like Qatar was.Qatar is where, like, Al Jazeera is, which is basically Iran’s global mouthpiece. Yeah ... the reason why Qatar is so close with Iran is because they share the gas field that is the basis of all of Qatar’s wealth. This is the natural gas field. And Iran and Qatar have to get along otherwise they end up fighting in a way that would be mutually destructive.But now even Qatar doesn’t like them because Iran bombed the main refining facility of Qatar. So- Okay ... all of these other Middle Eastern countries really hate, hate Iran’s guts now. And what they’re saying under the table is, “We want what Israel wants. We want Iran a failed state or functionally eradicated,” okay?Simone Collins: Right,Malcolm Collins: yeah. Trump doesn’t want this. This would cause a major refugee [00:05:00] crisis and it has- Yeah, yeah ... some other negative externalities. Israel, this is Israel’s endgame, I think. But, you know, Israel is at the moment partially serving us. They’re doing some stuff with Hezbollah. I think Trump secretly approves it.We’ll get to that in a second. But- Okay ... so Iran closes down the strai- the strait. We’ve said if, in terms of large geopolitical players, we point out that that basically only helps the United States. While it may hurt us economically in the short term, like, like, in an absolute sense, in a relative sense against all other parts of the world no country on Earth is helped more than the United States by a shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz.Because we produce all of the stuff that comes out of there, and are exporters of it, and just basically captured Venezuela, which is one of the other major exporters of it. And so, like, that just makes the value of all that stuff that we own and export and is a major part of our economy go up. And so the people who get hurt by that, as I’ve said, are Europe and China primarily, China the most.And, and some other East Asian countries. But nobody gets hurt by this [00:06:00] more than who, Simone? Who gets hurt the most by a closure of the Strait of Hormuz?Simone Collins: Europe, the EU, right? No. China.Malcolm Collins: It closes ... uAE- Russia ... Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.Simone Collins: Because- Oh, for this, their oil sales ...Malcolm Collins: they can’t export their main product if that strait is closed.And Saudi Arabia has some other ports they can use, but, but minor stuff there. Okay? So all of these people, one, hate Iran’s guts right now. They want Iran functionally eliminated long-term. And th- because keep in mind they’re, it, most of them are a different branch of Islam and the, nobody hates each other more than the two branches of Islam, right?Those are the two big... y- you think they hate the Jews, you know, they’re, they’re, they’re, they’re chomping at the bit to g- go at each other. But anyway, so, they, Iran pretty isolated, right? And this is why Iran, in terms of how they built out their global power projection, had to do it through terrorist networks rather than through alliances with states like the Saudi Arabians did.So, we [00:07:00] wanna get this strait open, but there’s this Mosaic Defense Force saying, “And we don’t really care that much.” Like, we don’t want the US to put a bunch of money in getting this open. Okay?Simone Collins: Yeah.Malcolm Collins: So who is most motivated to get the strait open? The other powers in the Middle East right now. So what did the deal functionally do?It did two things simultaneously that have people pissed off. Both of them are kind of irrelevant. One is releasing Iran’s frozen funds. For people who act like this is us giving Iran money, you guys have the mentality of Josh of Bricks and Minifigs thinking he’s giving the guy a big gift by giving him his Legos back.It’s like, no, you f*****g seized those Legos. You’re not doing some big f*****g favor by giving them their own Legos back. You just seized them because they had diplomatic sanctions on them. Right? So that’s really irrelevant, and it wasn’t even that much money. It’s like $20 billion or something like thatSimone Collins: Okay.Malcolm Collins: The $300 billion deal [00:08:00] is what everybody is talking about.Simone Collins: Yes.Malcolm Collins: This has nothing to do with US assets. No- nobody in the US is involved in this deal. Okay. So what is actually happening with this deal? What this does is it allows for up to 300 million, which by the way a lot of people... Billion. A lot of people are leaving the up to out of investment.Keep in mind this is not like a donation. This is not for infrastructure. This is for direct investment by all of these countries that Iran just pissed off inside of Iran. All right? So you’ve gotta keep in mind what that functionally means is going to happen in Iran. All right? So a bunch of countries now that want Iran gone in the long term wouldn’t want something like this again, and would want to be able to act against Iran with more force if this happened again, now basically have a blank slate to build up private operations with private militias, [00:09:00] private everything like that all throughout Iran.And not just all throughout Iran, but at every key economic node of Iran, because what are these powers going to be investing in? If the UAE, if Saudi Arabia just got a bunch of billions of dollars to invest in Iran, what are they gonna be investing sprucing up? What are they gonna b- be buying? Oil.Yeah. Oil creation assets, oil creation facilities. And they have a lot of experience in making these very defensible once they get them in place, right? Sure. This actually puts Iran in a terrible position long term, but it’s worse than that for Iran. Because now what they’re saying is, “Okay, I know that you have this Mosaic Defense Force which is going to want to, like, show off and just randomly attack ships and blah blah blah blah blah,” right?But, this is such a potential boon to the future of Iran because it is still money flowing in, it is still dollars going to [00:10:00] Iranians at the end of the day who will be employed at these facilities, right? That there’s a reason to say, “Hey, we actually lose something very big, this continued investment, if we continue to act bad.”So now they have an active reason to not do the bad thing with assets on the ground. Now this gets very, very different than the deal that Obama put into place. Because the deal that Obama put into place was sort of like, “We’ll have bureaucrats go there and check your numbers and see whatever,” right?The, and the bureaucrats don’t really even have a vested interest in making sure Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons. Now under the Trump deal, which is interesting because the Trump deal on its surface feels like it has a lot fewer fangs in it. But because it’s directly tied to these new assets within Iran owned by all of these countries around Iran, right?Mm. It is way harder for Iran to do two things. One, attempt to nationalize this [00:11:00] stuff. If Iran attempts to nationalize this stuff, they’ve now pissed off every country around them, and given countries that for a long time have wanted to seriously kick butt on Iran a casus belli for a war. And a casus belli for a war that even if the United States doesn’t enter, Israel certainly will, because Israel’s been waiting to do this forever.And they now know that Israel versus Iran looks really bad on the Iranian side.Simone Collins: Hmm.Malcolm Collins: So functionally in terms of, like, the actual motivations that Iran has in terms of moving forwards, this is a pretty powerful deal. Now, this isn’t to say that, you know, Iran could be so much of a failed state at this point that they just can’t control their military, that their military decides to go out there, strike random ships, whatever.At that point, we’ll see what ends up happening. I’m not saying that that won’t end up happening, because that could happen. The other big hitch in this is that Hezbollah s- is still sending missiles at Israel. So Israel decides you know, because they’re trying to, [00:12:00] to provoke Israel, basically. They don’t, they don’t want this to end, right?Like, a lot of, a lot of these other Iran state actors don’t want this to end. This, these are the, the guys in Lebanon. By the way, if you’re like, “Oh, w- w- killing innocents in Lebanon, how could this happen?” I wanna give you a a just, just a, an overview of Lebanon’s history for people who aren’t aware of it.So, if you go back to the 1895 census that we have, okay? Okay ... lebanon was 80% Christian. They were, by 1930- Holy,Simone Collins: wait, what kind of Christian? Catholic?Malcolm Collins: I think Catholic. Or they might’ve been an Eastern Orthodox branch.Oh. Or 79% Christian. Okay?Simone Collins: Whoa.Speaker 3: They were Catholics, it turns out, which makes all of the de-sucking that the Pope did and Vatican II did not long after this look particularly ghoulishMalcolm Collins: You go to today what, what is, what is Lebanon today?28% Christian. You wanna know what happened to, to, to their Christian population?Simone Collins: What?Malcolm Collins: Well, mass [00:13:00] murdered. So, specifically we have things like the Damascus massacres, where 5,000 to 12,000 Christians were, like, just pulled out of churches and monasteries and murdered in the streets. And then you have the Lebanon Civil War.Simone Collins: By whom? Like, what is, what, what contingent was so anti-Christian?Malcolm Collins: MuslimsSimone Collins: Okay, great. Great, great. Okay,Malcolm Collins: Muslims. Yeah, I think people, like, when people are like, “But a Jew spit on a nun once.” And it’s like, bro, it’s a completely different scale. A Jew - besmirched a statue of Jesus. It’s like, what, what are you, what are you on about?Speaker 5: The one that always gets me when people are like, “Did you know that Israel bombed a, a church in Gaza?” And I’m like, “Okay, how many people were attending that church?” It’s like, “Well, there was like three or four.” And it’s like, “Uh-huh, and there used to be hundreds. What happened to them? What happened to them?”Oh, you, you, you, you, are you willingly unaware or are you just like you like cucking yourself? Because these people, like it’s, it’s worse than being cucked. [00:14:00] It’s like you’re actively out there seeing somebody murder your countrymen, your children, your wife, and you’re like stanning themSpeaker 6: I am fairly confident that these people have some weird NTR fetish and that we’re gonna find out one day when Nick’s, , folder leaks that that was his thing all alongSpeaker 4: And for those who are unaware, , if you’re like, “Well, but Jews I guess functionally do the same thing because they vote Democrat,” it’s like actually Orthodox Jews, the ones having kids, the ones who will be represented in the future, the ones we’ll be partnered with long-term in Israel, , they vote Republican overwhelmingly.So much so that they are one of the key reasons we win the swing state of Florida and have moved that into the easy area to win for the Republican PartyMalcolm Collins: And note here, there are decent Muslims, right? But a lot of them, and the Muslims that have cultural power in Lebanon right now are not [00:15:00] that group. Okay? Specifically Hezbollah, which is essentially holding the country hostage. For 40 years, Israel has told the, the government in Lebanon, “Stop these people on your borders just shind- sending missiles into our country.”They haven’t done it, so Israel says, “Okay, we’re gonna handle it. We’re gonna, we’re gonna get this. We have greater Israel. Let’s, let’s...” You know? If, if they get rid of the Christians in Lebanon, you know what? Greater Israel all the way. Make it Jewish. I don’t care, right? But Iran wants to include a protection for Hezbollah, or Lebanon in their minds in this because they don’t wanna lose the last state asset that they really have, which is really in tatters anyway at this point because of the pager bombings and stuff like this.But Israel is saying to Trump, “We’re not gonna do this.” And they go in and they attack Damascus. Which I under- I mean, from their interests, they really don’t want this to happen. They, there have been right-wing Israeli pundits that you can find just railing about the peace deal. Because again, Israel’s best interest is the complete destruction of the [00:16:00] Iranian state.Simone Collins: Uh-huh.Malcolm Collins: They do not care long term-Simone Collins: Scorched earth, nothing there, yeah. Which is-Malcolm Collins: Yeah ... yeah Destroy all their economic assets. NotSimone Collins: great. I mean-Malcolm Collins: Anything like that.Simone Collins: Yeah. No. That’s not what we want. No.Malcolm Collins: And that’s generally not what America wants. No. So, so you could say, okay, so why is Trump not being harder on Israel, just saying they’re being stupid, basically?I think it’s because he wants them to do this. So the important thing to remember with the deal-Simone Collins: Okay ...Malcolm Collins: is that you need to make it look like you’re doing a lot in terms of your part of the deal. Sure. If Trump can go and talk Israel down and get Israel to get out-Simone Collins: Oh ...Malcolm Collins: while this is completely- HeSimone Collins: has more leverageMalcolm Collins: active. Yeah, he has way more leverage in the negotiations. It’s like, “Look, they don’t wanna do this. I’m trying to get them to do this,” right? It’s, it’s really aSimone Collins: lot- It’s good cop, bad cop. I- yeah. Okay.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. So by the way, is this at what you understood of what was happening, or were you just completely with me?Simone Collins: No, no. My understanding was allegedly there are [00:17:00] talks but this doesn’t do anything to stop any long-term nuclear threat from Iran. Like, yes, we’ve decimated their nuclear capacity, but within a year they could be back up and running. Yes, we’ve ruined, you know, their lower tech ballistic missiles and stuff, but sure, they could just buy new ones.And this- ... this alleged a- agreement or plans for an agreement, they’re just plans. W- no one has seen the full written agreement. Nothing has been agreed to formally. And by the way, Israel doesn’t wanna back out of Lebanon and who knows what’s gonna happen with Iran? It’s all fragmented. You can’t even get it to agree in the first place.So basically, if you look at what, I think, the surface of mainstream media and general reporting tells you, nothing is happening. This war is terrible. We’ve wasted money. We’re no better off than we used to be, and-Malcolm Collins: Yeah, so that’s just basically- ... TrumpSimone Collins: is embarrassed ...Malcolm Collins: completely wrong at every single point.So first of all, remember how I said that, like, we [00:18:00] can’t get Iran to stop making nukes by sending bureaucrats in? Yeah. You know what, what,Simone Collins: and- Yeah. No, that’s, it’s, it’s like telling, it’s like telling our kids, like, “Don’t do this. It’s against the rules. You’ll get a timeout.”Malcolm Collins: Yeah.Simone Collins: And you just have, you have to change the incentives.Everything’s incentives, not punishments.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. So you- You it, a, well, no, punishments matter too. What, Iran functionally and finally got punished for decades of flagrantly ignoring our they almost have a nuke freak-out, right? By this lore. And people were like, “Oh, it’s always been they almost have a nuke.”And it’s like, yeah, and they almost got it multiple times. And then we did Stuxnet, and Iran, Israel did Stuxnet, which was really clever, by the way. Again, Jews and their sneak stat. They’re just like speccing into a race with like a plus 25 to sneak. Like, the Hezbollah bombings were crazy. Stuxnet, if you’re not familiar with this, it was a completely offline centrifuge, and they ended up tricking somebody [00:19:00] into taking a USB drive, putting it into the completely offline device, and then destroying this super expensive centrifuge automatically.Like, the mechanical parts of it. That is the wildest thing I’ve ever heard of in terms of... That’s, that’s some, that’s some Jewery right there. That’s,Simone Collins: that’s- Next, next level ...Malcolm Collins: cucking Jew. But anyway, so, Stuxnet set them way back. Like, over and over again, they get set back. They get set back. They get set back.And now They almost had it finally. And they were basically telling us that. They go, “We have enough to make, I think it was, what? 25 nukes within two months they said, or something like that. Like, like basically they’re just like, “Yeah, we’ve pre-refined it.” There’s no, there’s no reason to have it refined to this amount other than military-grade weapons, and it only takes a few weeks to get it from the amount of refinement they had to nuclear grade and then use it, right?Mm-hmm. So they’re basically saying, “Yeah, we, we have the capability to nuke.” They’re a country that regularly trans- death to America at political events. This is not a controversial statement there. That’s the party line. [00:20:00] That’s, that’s in the national charter. And that’s obviously a threat to America, right?Especially given that they have even recently funded you know, the killings of 250 Marines at one of our embassies through, through Hezbollah, right? Like, they, they are willing to nuke American assets, right? Like, they’d probably start with the Jews, but, but you know, we’d, you know, be on the list.In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to do an Israel America at the same time sort of thing, just as like a big show of force and how great they are and try to... and of course, Hasan Piker and all the leftists at universities, even if it was Manhattan being nuked, would still be doing these big parades, ‘cause that’s how they are these days.But, so they almost get the n- the, this material, and it’s like what can we do at this point, right? The only thing we can really do is bomb their military into the Stone Age, and you look at what we were able to achieve with this. We destroyed basically all of their military assets. Their entire navy, which was, by the way, I think four exercises of British Navy,Simone Collins: Was it really?Oh, I don’t remember- Yeah, yeah, yeah ... hearing about a big navy.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. Wow. Well, it’s more that Britain has a super small navy [00:21:00] now.Simone Collins: There’s that.Malcolm Collins: Super small and incompetent. But anyway that’s at the bottom, that’s at the bottom of the, the, the ocean now or the, the sea there. But anyway, so we got rid of their navy, we got rid of a lot of their land assets.We really hurt them in terms of their ordinance stockpiles that they have access to. And but, yes, they can restock, but in the meantime, we also did a lot of physical destruction to nuclear facilities that, that we’re aware of. But more than all of that, we really up the country’s leadership organization.Like we basically killed Two generations of leadership. Well, not we. They, the Israelis are way better at the targeted killing stuff. We helped, okay? We, we threw a few bombs in there, but they, If you look at the, the, the level of the destruction that happened within the leadership of Iran it’s, it’s genuinely astonishing, and it’s gonna be very hard for them to bounce back from this.Mm-hmm ... w- when you consider that, as well as the asset damage. And anything that looks like, [00:22:00] from the perspective of other Middle Easterners, re-arming themselves is gonna be bad, and I think that they, they... because they, they’ll withdraw the money. And this is where it gets really good, because the thing that I think that we’ve learned in the United States more broadly, and I think this is what we should learn in the UK, I think this is something that we need to, to come away with, is there was a, the, the, the one of the heads of Qatar, he’s got this speech where he’s talking about how the United States and Europe, he specifically, he was calling out here Europe, he goes, “We’re gonna have to deal with, in the next generation, many a Muslim extremist attacks,” because Europe is not dealing with its Muslim extremists, right?Like, they are, as we’ve seen in recent episodes, there’ll be, like, a gang rape, and the, the kid, the minors who did it, so they can say, “Oh, it’s not a big deal,” they, they got fines of, like, community service. They didn’t even get jail time for it. They posted it on Snapchat live. Like, the, the level of degradation, and with the new files, which we’re not gonna cover, by the way, of all the grooming gangs, was so much worse than anyone thought.And they were [00:23:00] 98% Muslim, turns out. So much worse than anyone thought that, that, And these also, these groups target Muslim communities as well. Like, keep that in mind, right? Like, Absolutely horrifying that this has been al- allowed to metastasize. And the, the guy in Qatar’s like, “You and America need to d- need to deal with this.You and y- Europe need to deal with this.” And when they say deal with it in Qatar, what they mean is drag them out in the street and chop their heads off. Okay? And this is where I’m gonna say something a little controversial. I think we should allow for Sharia law in the UK and in the US applied to Muslim communities.Oh. So, so here how this works. Okay. I think that we should still be subject to all of the other laws of our country, but in addition to the other laws of the country, if Sharia law would ever have a harsher punishment than the country’s laws, then the Sharia law punishment is applied to any practicing Muslim.And this is done at the level of local Muslim councils. So for [00:24:00] example, what would happen to these men under Sharia law? The smallest fine that they would’ve had to pay, the smallest thing that may have happened to them as an unmarried man involved in a grape is 100 whip lashes from a whip.If you’re unfamiliar with what 100... That’s, that’s what Johnny Rico was given for accidentally leading to one of his teammates being killed in a a live fire exercise in Starship Trooper. That is a brutal thing to do to someone.Speaker 8: I was wrong. The Johnny Rico scene is only 10 lashes for an example of how extreme Sharia law is compared to other, , legal systems. , Just in case you’re wondering how many lashes is generally considered fatal, in ancient Roman and Jewish tradition, 40 lashes was often seen as the point where death became likely, hence the common practice of limiting it to 39 lashes to avoid accidentally killing.In British military flogging, ,. A famous case in 1846 involved a soldier dying after 150 lashes. Sentences were later reduced to 50 or fewer. A Russian knout, , far [00:25:00] deadlier.100 lashes were typically fatal. The heavy wire-reinforced tool could break bones in the spine, with some deaths reported as few as 20 strokes. , Modern judicial flogging in the Middle East, sentences of 50 to 100 lashes are common and often survived without serious injury, though deaths occur, examples include a boy dying after 85 lashes due to a mishitSpeaker 7: recruit trainee John Rico is sentenced to administrative punishment Ten lashes Carry out the sentenceSpeaker 9: So if we had Sharia law implemented for Muslims in the West, , and you had something like this gang rape and then they posted on, , you know, X or whatever, , we know it was a Snapchat, you know, you would have ended up with maybe a quarter of these kids just being whipped to death in public. And I [00:26:00] think that would be a very strong deterrent, , both to importing more, , Muslims who want this to be the punishment for everyone and for the Muslim population in these countries.Speaker 10: Just a few logistical points if you’re confused as to, “Oh, well, how do you determine who’s a Muslim?” Right? The, the answer is easy. It’s by, , mosque,Records. , Basically you are, , if you go to a mosque and that mosque, , ascribes to Sharia law, then you are put on the records as being a Muslim who ascribes to Sharia law, right? Like, it would be very, very simple. And if you are a kid under 18, , somebody who goes to one of the mosques, then you are counted as on those recordsSpeaker 11: And if you’re like, “Oh, but that’s so inhumane,” you understand that this is what will become the law of the land in these countries if we allow current demographics to play out. , If you look at the United States, , the Center of Security Policy poll, , found that fifty-one percent of [00:27:00] American Muslims thought that Sharia courts should be allowed in the United States., A twenty-twenty-four Heritage Foundation -- poll found thirty-nine percent of Muslims in the United States thought that Sharia law should be the law of the land. Um, in the UK, we have polls ranging from, , forty-three percent., There was a two-thousand-and-sixteen poll, Policy Exchange IMC, , forty-one percent showed it.In twenty-twenty-four, Henry Jackson Society showed thirty-two percent wanting it. And you can be like, “Well, this isn’t the majority,” or, “It’s only the edge majority in some cases,” but the ones who want it are having vastly more kids than the ones who don’t want it, so they will be the majority of the population in the future.If you’re like, “Oh, this is... How could you do this? This is mon-” You’ve gotta understand, if you do nothing, if you just allow things to play out, this is the way people of the future will be tried in these countries. So you are, through not allowing this to be engaged with, causing it to be engaged with at a much larger level in the future based on current statistical [00:28:00] trends.Speaker 13: And again, I have nothing against Muslims or Islam or anything like that. , I just think that there is a version of Islam that is leading to much higher birth rates within certain parts of the community, , that I do find distasteful, the same way I find certain versions of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community that are extremely unproductive, , distasteful., And I think that when we look at this version being the high fertility version, this version being the version that’s been resistant to the low fertility aspects of Western culture, , and is, is not integrating, , because the ones who do integrate don’t have as many kids, , that, , , we see many people in the West not understand what the real long-term implications is if they become a majority anywhere., And I think that through changing the law system to the one that they want, the one that they’re asking for, for the members on their mosque rolls, , that could help people grok that when they say they want these sorts of punishments, they’re serious about it.Malcolm Collins: On the high end, depending on which version of Sharia law you’re, you’re looking at, that would be a [00:29:00] public crucifixion.Now you wanna see gang grape stop really quickly in Muslim neighborhoods? Start having teenagers being publicly crucified in those neighborhoods in Britain, and it’s gonna stop mighty fast.Simone Collins: Yeah.Malcolm Collins: A- and better- Well,Simone Collins: you make a fair point that, like, maybe there’s a lack of Sharia law at play among communitiesMalcolm Collins: that are- These people co-evolved with these incredibly harsh punishments, right?Right. Like, we, we point out that, like, m- different people evolved alongside different social norms, and when you take them and put them in a completely different set of social norms their behavior... Like evolution affects personality, behavior, how you relate to things, and humans have undergone an enormous amount of recent sociological evolutionary pressure.Mm-hmm ... and if you take somebody who’s used to these incredibly strict rules that they use in places like the UAE, and Qatar, and, and Iran, and Saudi Arabia, right? Like, all of these countries have incredibly harsh punishments. Whenever you have a Muslim country that actually has a degree of [00:30:00] law and order- it’s because they are applying these punishments as they should be applied.So I’m coming up that I’m for Sharia law going forward, just only applied to the Muslim community. And, and they can’t say, “Well, this Muslim did something and it doesn’t violate Sharia law.” If secular law ever give the punishment worse than Sharia law, then the secular law punishment a- applies.Simone Collins: Well, I mean, I’m in, I’m in favor of any religion’s laws being properly enforced.Malcolm Collins: Well, I know, but they’re, you’re not even legally... I mean, the, the other thing, if it’s a married man who, who grapes someone in Sharia law, that, that’s just a stoning anywhere. That’s the minimum you can get. They don’t even allow us to stone Muslims in, in the United States or the UK. Like, it’s their own law that they should be stoned.Let’s f- let their people stone them, you know? And I think, the second thing I think, is I think that pretty soon once we kill-Simone Collins: Well, okay, sorry. Just to, to- criticize this approach, then you’re also saying that honor killings are okay of young women who have been assaulted. And that’s-Malcolm Collins: That’s actually not Sharia lawsuper notSimone Collins: [00:31:00] cool, right?Malcolm Collins: That’s not... That’s explicitly in violation of Sharia law.Simone Collins: It is?Malcolm Collins: It is. It is. In Sharia law, the woman who is raped, it... Now, there have been local customs where this has been applied. Okay. But Sharia law itself is very explicit that the woman is innocent.Simone Collins: What about a woman who’s just being slutty, let’s say, by their standards?Oh,Malcolm Collins: well, you know, maybe we can let them handle... Maybe we could create some negative externalities for that behavior as well. Okay. But what I think is there’s the secondary benefit to this. One, MuslimsSimone Collins: believe- Now, we, we spend all this time around, like, very progressive people, so I’m just hearing them say, “So Malcolm, you believe that a young lady who chooses to be sexually intimate with someone, possibly someone who emotionally manipulated her at a time in which she’s very emotionally vulnerable and immature, that she should be stoned to death if she chooses to become sexually active before getting married as a teenager?”Malcolm Collins: Absolutely.Simone Collins: Are you saying that?Malcolm Collins: Because there are- Oh, my God ... a number of positive effects of this for society. Okay. The first, we give the [00:32:00] Muslims what they want. The ma- majority of Muslims in the UK want Sharia law- Mm-hmm ... at this point, right? Mm-hmm. In the United States, I think it’s 36% of Muslims. So many Muslim communities want this, right?Simone Collins: That’s a minority, but okay.Malcolm Collins: No, in the, in the UK it’s a majority., I went through the statistics above listing the polls, but actually in one poll it’s the majority in the US as wellSpeaker 12: And as I said, it’s also somewhat irrelevant because the ones who believe this are the ones who have demonstrably more kids, probably about double the rate of kids. And so they are the ones who will be represented in future populationsSimone Collins: Okay.Malcolm Collins: And in the US it might be a majority. Now, I need to double check, but yeah.Simone Collins: I feel like this needs to be opt-in. You know, you have to, like, waive your- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. NotMalcolm Collins: an opt-in for the Muslim communities who have their own mosque and everything like that.Okay, so, so now you have two-Simone Collins: How would this be practically enforced? Like, let’s say-Malcolm Collins: It would be,Simone Collins: Enforced by Sharia law ... my parents were Muslim, but I’m not. Like, I’m an, I’m an atheist wiccan whose parents are Muslim. What laws apply? I ha- I’ve chosen- So, so- ... to not opt into thatMalcolm Collins: culture ... so it is applied...First of all, if you’re an atheist wiccan whose parents [00:33:00] are Muslim, you’re an apostate and Sharia law says you should be killed.Simone Collins: Oh, my God. So,Malcolm Collins: That, by the way... So let’s talk about why this is such a positive thing, why this wouldSimone Collins: be such a positive thing to allow. Yes. Why is this such a positive thing?Malcolm Collins: First, you give the Muslims what they want. Second, the Muslims who don’t want this would now have a very strong reason to deconvert, right? So what you say is basically you have the right to deconvert from Islam, and the state will protect you after the age of 18. If at the age of 18 you want to deconvert you can deconvert from Islam, and you no longer need to play in this system, and the state will protect you and maybe even open up shelters for people who are doing this specifically.I, I’d be okay with state funding that, okay? The-Simone Collins: Oh, for like shelters of a minor who wants to escape?Malcolm Collins: I said 18 If you’re a minor, in Islamic law, the parents kill you if you leave Islam, okay?Simone Collins: Oh my God. Okay.Malcolm Collins: But the secondary benefit to this, I think minors should have to follow the laws and religion of their parents.Absolutely. If their parents are paying to support them, [00:34:00] they’re n- the state’s not paying to support them. I mean, in a lot of these Muslim cases they are, let’s be honest, but let’s just say the parents, right? So the second thing, okay, is that visibly, now all of a sudden people in the UK, the leftists in the UK, the, the leftists in America have to visually see that the group that they’re bringing into their country doesn’t want the, the world that they want.When they see the gay guy being stoned in the street to death, some gay, some, some twinky teen literally being hit with stones until he’s dead, crumpling to the ground in the middle of the street in Manhattan or something like this where they sanction this off or their Sharia law stoning, real quick they’re gonna want these people out of the country.Yeah. Real quick we’re gonna get immigration,Simone Collins: Bans in place. Oh, so you’re just saying it’s, it’s a forcing function thing.Malcolm Collins: It’s a forcing function. We give them what they want.Simone Collins: And people see what, what... Like, okay, right. Because I guess your broader argument is people are not willing [00:35:00] to intellectually wrap their heads around what many Muslim communities actually for really, like, for real really want.And if we accelerate that and just give them a preview of where things are headed and say, “This is literally what you’re gonna get,” then this can be staved off from happening. So either it happens at, like, a 10% level now if we make it happen, or it happens at a 100% level 50 years from now-Malcolm Collins: Yeah, when they voteSimone Collins: it into national lawthereby ruining countries. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Which is what they want. They want this to be the national law. Yeah. SoMalcolm Collins: let’s make this theSimone Collins: law- And you’re just making it a 10% thing I think ... andMalcolm Collins: then the final externality is you know how quickly the Muslim grape gangs are gonna die out when this gets implemented? You know how quickly a lot of this negative behavior we see, oh, y- w- let’s see, what’s the punishment for, for stealing in Sharia law?We gonna get some hands lopped off here or something? l- we’ll see what the f- punishment for sluttiness is okay, so for a woman who sleeps with somebody out of wedlock it’s 100 lashes. So it’s the same as a man graping someone, which you know what?I’m okay with [00:36:00] that. Stoning to death is if, if the woman is married, which I’m also okay with. For stealing, it’s the amputation of the right hand. I am 100% okay with that. Yeah, as for male and female thieves, cut off their hands. So yeah, you, you know how quickly the, the Muslim crime waves we’ve been dealing with are gonna stop when we start cutting off their fricking hands?Real fast. And the great thing is, is this won’t be done by conservatives. This’ll be done by Muslims of their own communities, which will make their communities less externalities to other groups, and I bet conservatives might be able to get along with Muslims right fast when they start enacting their own punishments on their own group, right?Like, I could... I’m, I’m being totally honest here. If Muslim communities were allowed to punish their own members in these incredibly strict and severe ways in, like, Canada, in the United States, in the UK, in Germany, a, a conservative like me, I, I honestly think... Because right now the Muslim community, like, why do I have a beef with the Muslim community?They keep [00:37:00] graping my people, and then it gets covered up by the local police forces. Because they keep going out there and stealing from my people, right, from our government, right? From, from the local stores, from the... They create these enormous the, you know, thief games. They have your externalities when you look at, at, at, at, at, at rates of, of, of being involved in crime.You see really high rates. If all of that dropped off a cliff, I’d have no f*****g problem. I’d have no problem with Muslims, right? Like, if, if, if, if... And I think it would drop off a cliff if we let them enact Sharia law.Simone Collins: Well, I guess what you’re saying a lot, is a lot of this is downstream of our broader- At least personally st- very strongly held rule of we are cool with any cultural group that does its own thing, so long as it does not curtail on the rights or liberties or property of other groups.And the problem- Right, like ... is that you’re saying this particular group is infringing upon the freedom, rights, liberty, and property of other groups that it sh- you know, has [00:38:00] no right to do. So they, they have become in a, or, and/or are becoming an increasingly existential threat to non-Muslim groups, and therefore- And I, andMalcolm Collins: I wanna be clear here.Your average Muslim in Britain, like, the, the average, the, the Muslim who wants Sharia law, your religiously observant Muslim, they do not like that these grooming gangs are happening.Simone Collins: Sure. Of course not. No ...Malcolm Collins: they,Simone Collins: they, they want these- They’re, they’re horrible bad actors ...Malcolm Collins: people punished because it makes them look bad and they want Sharia law in Britain, which may be antagonistic to our goals, but they don’t just, like, want every bad actor out there doing every bad thing, right?Simone Collins: Like- Well, and I d- I do like, I do like the reframing of Sharia law. Like, I’m just a law and order citizen. Like is that so bad? Yeah. Like, in, in this era- Maximal law and order ... when I think about, like, one of the big sort of Asmongold points of, of our day and age is, hey, wouldn’t it be great if we actually enforced our laws?That is a- ... it’s an interesting take and an angle that I hadn’t thought about before. What if we just... Like, is, is [00:39:00] Sharia law so bad in an era in which one of our biggest problems is a refusal, a, a broad, a refusal to in- impose laws that we have established and agreed upon as a, a base of citizens? Th- that we want these laws.They should be here. But no. Yeah. No.Malcolm Collins: Yeah. And well, and I, I think, I mean, even conservative Americans, if it ends up working and ha- having the Muslim community become positive actors in our countries, I think many Americans, you know, they, they see the guys, the thieves’ hands being chopped off instead of being released back on the street over and over again, they’re probably gonna be like I didn’t think I liked Islam that much, but I mean, if it’s only Muslims this is happening to, I’m fine.I mean, that works for me, right?Simone Collins: Well, I don’t know. But I’ve, I’ve listened to so many horrific stories of the mistreatment of especially children and women within this culture. But that’sMalcolm Collins: common i- withinSimone Collins: Islamic countries. The problem though is, is well, the, it’s, and, and that it’s happening now without Sharia law.In, and to your point I guess in many cases in [00:40:00] violation of Sharia law. So in, I think in a sense because they’re in these gray zones where they’re outside nations with Sharia law, nations that wouldn’t even take them as, for example, as, as refugees in some cases that are also sort of accommodating them and, and turning a blind eye to bad, bad actors and crimes being committed.Perhaps there are, there’s an argument to be made, it’s possible that there are more atrocities committed against even Muslim, practicing Muslim women and children without Sharia law and with the law of the governing country turning a blind eye toward those communities and being like, “I’m not gonna look at this, la, la, la, la, la.”Like, and, “It would be racist for me to notice anything,” which is screwed up. Yeah, and in a way that- Because even within those communities they’re like, “No, this is not okay,” and yet we have been defanged of the tools that we would use to police this among [00:41:00] people.Malcolm Collins: Yeah.Simone Collins: Okay.Malcolm Collins: Islam has the tools baked into it to police Muslims.Simone Collins: Right. But then of course those tools are illegal within, for example, the United Kingdom, so the United Kingdom refuses to impose its own laws on many of these groups for fear of being accused of racism or bias, but then these own groups don’t have the tools they require to enforce those laws themselves if they were to just do it without the UK.So okay, I see your point. My goal, I mean, so obviously, like my number one goal is, you know, promote longterm human flourishing. Our general ideology is, hey, any group should be allowed to do its thing as long as they’re not- An existential threat to other group or impinging on the ability of another group to pursue its, its, you know, prerogative and, you know, have its stuff and do its thing.But then, like, number three, I really, I don’t like people being harmed. I, I don’t, especially kids.Malcolm Collins: But, but hold on. I mean, I think that, that you, you frame this in a way that confuses people [00:42:00] sometimes.Simone Collins: Okay.Malcolm Collins: I am totally okay with a group cucking with another group when that other group is net less productive than the group who’s f*****g with them less moral than the group who’s f*****g with them.Because if, if you have a, a negative bad actor on, on your doorstep that’s constantly messing with you, right? Because a lot of people would take the things that you’re saying and saying, “Oh, when Israel defends itself against Hezbollah, that’s, that’s Jews being a negative externality for anotherSimone Collins: group.” No, no, no, no, no, no, no.Because we per our morality at least, if another group is infringing upon your ability to do your sovereign thing within your own borders, y- you have every right to bop them, as we would say, to, like, retaliate. Because they are not allowing you to, within your own house, do your own thing. Mm. So that, I, I agree with you on thatMalcolm Collins: So, I mean, I just wanna end this with a, you know all those people who said we’re gonna have tons of boots on the ground in Iran?I’ve always said I’m okay with Karg [00:43:00] Island. I’m okay with Karg Island as, as a limited military thing, but boots on the ground in Iran is stupid and Trump’s not gonna do that, and he didn’t do that. And people lied to you. Now, or they didn’t lie to you, they just have no f*****g idea how the world works and they’ve got a bu- an audience of third-worlders who’s totally captured them into these stupid anti-Semitic positions that are just not useful in terms of long-term human flourishing when we’re thinking about, like, useful allies.‘Cause right now, Europe’s not a long-term useful ally for us. They are, they are incredibly cucked, and Israel actually goes out there, and when somebody acts a fool, they handle it. And I think that we in the United States, in Europe, need to take a l- a line from Israel’s book going forwards. And that that is why I’m totally okay with building this stronger alliance with them and seeing where things are going.Right, right now I think Israel is actually acting with tacit approval of Trump to help in the negotiations. We can see how this ends up turning out or leaks that come out of the future. But broadly speaking, no, the stock market didn’t crash, the economy’s doing better than ever. No, oil [00:44:00] didn’t hit $200.No, all of the, no, they, they said that all of the countries in the Middle East would start hating us, when the exact opposite has happened. All of the countries in the Middle East started hating Iran more, started liking us more. There, there has never been a PR campaign so successful for America in the Middle East as Iran deciding to randomly bomb its former allies.Simone Collins: Right, but you are, you are one small voice whispering within a mosh pit of raging-Malcolm Collins: Idiots ...Simone Collins: people.Malcolm Collins: Idiots. NoSimone Collins: one- The world is just raging ... no one is going to understand this. The message everyone’s gonna come away with is, “I can’t travel this summer because airline prices are insane. My gas prices are higher.My food is more expensive. People in Europe have even higher prices.” And everyone else is just like, “Oh, and Trump has humiliated himself,” blah, blah, blah. So, like, I think even a lot of Republicans are gonna come away feeling like this was a net loss. No,Malcolm Collins: I mean, a lot of Republicans have been incepted by these idiots who, like Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, who have giant third-worlder audiences, who have a...I mean, that’s why, that’s why [00:45:00] Tucker Carlson’s moving to Qatar, right? Like, th- this is, this is where his, his, his butter is backed, by the way. Th- this is the position- HisSimone Collins: bread is buttered.Malcolm Collins: His bread is buttered. They’ve got these giant audiences. As we pointed out in our episode, this changed everything, but the, the internet became significantly majority third world over the past 10 years.The third world, this is why they stopped caring about, this is why the left stopped caring about, like, American blacks and, and, and the environment. The third-worlders don’t care about those things. And they all got- caught up in these idiot cycles, and they completely believe them. And when you look at rightist influencers, you would get the opinion that people are, are falling for this.But when you look at the actual right, like MAGA MAGA, MAGA’s 9- 90% pro this war since the beginning, right? Like, MAGA has always been about this. It was never fooled by the captured parts of the influencer class that are acting on behalf of leftists and honestly anti-American interests. And it, it’s, it’s like do people step back and think, “Oh, they, they were just...”They, [00:46:00] they don’t. They don’t remember. You were like... Like, I was talking to Simone in the car about this in the morning. I go, “Will anybody take a step back and be like, ‘Nick Fuentes had no f-ing idea what he was talking about when this war started.’?” And who was right? People like Nux and Malcolm who, who actually was right about where things were going.And that maybe- Yeah,Simone Collins: but what’s, what’s... I just, I’m just trying to say, like, what’s really frustrating is that you guys were right, but that’s not going to change the narrative of how this is gonna work. Like, the people writing theMalcolm Collins: history of this- No, I, I think, I think we on the right need to be harsher both in terms of our time and our views of the anti-American voices on the right which have been growing.And I think, I mean, Nick Fuentes isn’t on the right. He’s a Democrat now. He says he’s a Democrat now, just people are so stupid they think that he’s like a right-wing, which he’s not. He’s just a Democrat. But Tucker Carlson still claims to be on the right, right? L- these people... A- and there’s these people with, th- th- you, you see them over, over, who was it?There was some b- w- Republican influencer who’s all mad about this deal and is saying who’s got a thing on Russian state [00:47:00] TVLaura Southern is who I was thinking of here. I saw it on nuxMalcolm Collins: like literally paid by the Russians, you know, to try to... And as we pointed out, the Russians, behind BLM, see our episode on that if you are unaware of this they funded a...Nine out of every ten dollars that went to influencing US politics, one would go to, to quote-unquote pro-Trump stuff, nine would go to b- pro-BLM stuff. Russia has been the party that’s just like we need to f- with Americans. Like, sow division, everything like that. You guys don’t need to do that, right?Like, when we work with Jews, we get things done, okay? Like, this was pretty cool. You know, actually winning a war. Actually getting what we wanted to, which was a degradation of their military resources to the extent that they’re not gonna be able to move forward, and more eyes and ears in their country by people who don’t want them to develop nuclear weapons.And those people having a vested interest to continue to invest into the country and own more assets in the country, which makes it harder for Iran to operate independently of the interests of these other Middle Eastern countries. Mm. Which is, again, in our interest because [00:48:00] these guys are our...They’re, they’re actually pretty useful allies. They can, I mean, like Saudi Arabia, 9/11, right? Like, they can, Be backstabby, certainly more than the Jews. But recently at least, Saudi Arabia’s been pretty good. And so, you know, will that work forever into the future? Hey, all we need to do is keep developing technology, because it’s not coming out of these regions, and the future is all AI, okay?So the more automated drone swarms we get, the less we need to worry about these people’s opinions. And so in the meantime, let’s let them handle their own, and that’s something we need to be doing more of when it comes to dealing with, I think, Muslim populations. So you heard it here first, base camp, we need sharia law.Simone Collins: Okay.Oh, myMalcolm Collins: God. Yeah, this, is this where you thought I was gonna go with this?Simone Collins: No. This is not where I thought you were gonna go, but I love that you always surprise me. After all these years together, you never cease to shock and surprise. I love you, Malcolm.Malcolm Collins: I love you, [00:49:00] too. I’m really excited to see this direction.Obviously, things could still blow up. I mean, Iran is, as I’ve said, a bunch of rogue actors, and if any of them decide to act basically all the central government can do is to either call in outside assistance or go scorched earth on the rogue actors. Unless the rogue actor’s action gives him more political influence, and then it becomes this whole...So, you know, so we’ll see.Simone Collins: Yeah. But I, I do... I would feel a lot more comfortable just personally, like, all right, how soon is it gonna be until Iran, you know, uses its continued tacit knowledge, or at least, like, documented internal knowledge of, like, developing nuclear weapons to just get back where it was.And if there’s some sort of way to align incentives in such a way where, like, they just really wouldn’t wanna do that because they are better served by not, then I would feel more comfortable. I don’t care what the treaties are. I don’t care what the agreements are. I care about the infrastructure that’s going to be set up after this conflict that would dissuade them from doing that.So the fact that there [00:50:00] may be some of that from what you said has me excited. Hopefully, that’s what happens.Malcolm Collins: Yep, hopefully that’s what happens. I don’t see where we’re gonna get a better carrot that we don’t have to pay for than this. So fantastic scenario.Simone Collins: AllMalcolm Collins: right. Thank you, and to our audience do something to improve yourself today.Yeah, snap that in. You have to learn to use a new AI product or something.Simone Collins: Yeah.Do it.Malcolm Collins: All right, bye.Simone Collins: .We’re so close to getting those new mics. Just, just waiting for a potential discount. Just bear with me. Okay.Malcolm Collins: Well, and we’ve gotta get personal audioSimone Collins: for you guys. Yeah, no, I’m, I’m excited for this conversation because again, I, I looked... Like I thought I was crazy, you know, when I was talking with you in the car this morning, but then I look at the like Drudge this morning “Obama deal better, Trump humiliation, MAGA hot- MA- MAGA hawk mutiny, text leaks.”Like it just sounds horrible and then I go to The New York Times, their front pageSpeaker 15: No, Indy. No, Indy. No, [00:51:00] Indy. It says area closed Remember, Toasty, yesterday you saw pictures of lily pads and, and flowers? Now you’re seeing them in real lifeSpeaker 16: Well, some plants grow in water. They’re aquatic plants Mommy. Yeah? Why do-Birds like water too, don’t they?Oh no, that’s what they like to eat Well, what if the alligator’s gotta eat something? You eat birds, toaster, you eat chicken nuggets. Yeah Yeah. That says area temporarily closed. We could just go in there ‘cause alligators don’t eat kids. What does temporarily mean? What does temporarily mean? Uh, you look yummy to alligators,Speaker 14: Titan.No. What does temporarily mean? 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