A historical B2 air assault on Iran.

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. What the heck is going on in the world? What is Brigadier General Blaine Halt And he was the United States military representative to NATO and knows this stuff. One smart guy, good friend. Well, Blaine General, Well, what the heck is going on? I mean that the American people should know on a Sunday morning.

0:27 Speaker 2 Thank you for having me. Wow, what is not going on with this world? Right now? I’ll take you on a quick spin. First off, we have the president who led, you know, probably the greatest air assault with these B two bombers in our history as a nation, with the US Air Force performing flawlessly, one hundred and twenty five aircraft, all communications out hand,

0:53 signals synchronized to perfection, seventy five weapons, all delivered perfectly on time, and then just barely after these guys land, you’ve got an intelligence community that is up in arms and says within hours that they still have a program.

1:14 They the mission was not accomplished. When the same exact intelligence community a few months back in March got their boss Odie and I gabbered to say that they didn’t even have a program. So the politization actually happened before the wheels got back to their home base. It’s just it’s stunning these events were watching. But kudos to the

1:34 Air Force and kudos to setting back the Iranians on those ambitions and maybe even the regime itself.

1:40 Speaker 1 Now, those big bombs that B two’s dropped there, what thirty pounds of TNT equivalent each one of them, Like we dropped fourteen of them.

1:50 Speaker 2 Yeah, thirty thousand pounds of explosive, and we can select and dial the exact depth which we wanted to explode.

1:58 Speaker 1 And you are here was Shima bomb. How many What was the equivalent of TNT was that?

2:09 Speaker 2 Oh? I think it’s a lot more.

2:11 Speaker 1 And then you have the fifty thousand or something.

2:13 Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah, and then you have the fission elements and all of that. So the good news is we are we have developed a lot of types of ordinance that pack that kind of a punch but don’t have the radiological consequences.

2:27 Speaker 1 Which is great because you get the target you want and you don’t have and you don’t have radiation.

2:35 Speaker 2 That’s right, That’s exactly it.

2:36 Speaker 1 Now general Originally I had talked about it on the air, and I mean, I don’t know if I was drunk or whatever. That when the Israelitis attacked too of the bases, that that and there was an underground there was an under ground earthquake. We assumed it’s possible, possible, believe that the Israelis did the job right and those two nuclear

3:05 bases exploded. Is that more real?

3:11 Speaker 2 Very possible? Yeah, No, it could be real. It’s one of a couple of things that the classification is such that we’re probably not going to know for a while. But there was a dangerous element to that too. We saw, well, maybe Massad has people under the ground and they’ve created something really devastating in these catacombs that are creating nuclear weapons.

3:33 But on the flip side of that, you could have said, is the regime rushing to get to a bomb and was this the first sign of a nuclear test, of getting that bomb and then getting it married up to a weapon real quick? I saw both. I just didn’t have conclusive anything, you know. I think the thing that

3:49 we’re pretty confident of it probably was not an earthquake, that something happened under the ground of flat.

3:55 Speaker 1 I agree with you one hundred ten percent. Then the only doubt that came up was when we hit the those three big bases with the B two’s bombers. There was no.

4:08 Speaker 2 Earthquakes, No, no earthquakes, but we think we got the mission area.

4:14 Speaker 1 Do you think that some of that fuel was taken out?

4:21 Speaker 2 I personally believe that there was, because we have, you know, open source max R satellite photos that show the sixteen tractor trailers lined up there a few days before. There’s been a lot of talk about an exact amount nine hundred kilos. Okay, well, no matter what it was. That what we have to do is if there’s any fissle

4:41 material that has left that country, we got to track it down and figure out what happened to it. Because if it ended up in Chinese hands or Russian hands, Okay, that’s a diplomatic issue, they’re both nuclear states. We can hack that. But John, if that fissle material in any way, shape or form got to the Taliban in Afghanistan that

5:02 are eager and greedy to have it because they’ve got their own programs, uh, well, then that that could that could require our president to make some real tough decisions. So it’s very we have to know what happened with that.

5:14 And then I’m not altogether sure that it didn’t just remain in country. There’s another mountain nearby called the Pickaxe Mountain, and we don’t know what’s under there there. There could be another possibility of them hiding it in a place we weren’t looking.

5:29 Speaker 1 Understood. And so that takes care of Iran and we know where the good news is right now. There’s there’s there’s a temporary peace. Uh, let’s move over to Ukraine for a few minutes. What the heck is going on now?

5:48 Speaker 2 Well, the President, after the successful events in the Middle East, went on to a NATO summit and basically flexed his bicep and said, you’re gonna follow me now because it hasn’t been working out for you, this money and endless weapons.

6:04 The realities on the ground are and I think we can all sympathize with the belaguered Ukrainians who have just been hammered here that Russia’s winning the war militarily, not economically. They’re in trouble there. But Europe has been an impediment to President Trump’s leadership and trying to get this war closed out. And you could tell that because before the

6:23 President even landed at the NATO summit, non NATO leader, an unelected person President of the EU Commission, Ursula Vanderlin, got on a NATO stage and with Zelenski pledged another one hundred and fifty billion dollars to go into some baby defense industry that’s going to be built in Ukraine, which we all know the Russians are going to say,

6:43 absolutely not. And this nonsense that comes out of these summits like where they’re proposing that, well, the Russians, if they win in Ukraine, they’re going to take the whole of Europe. They couldn’t even get to the Neeper River in three years. The Russians are not set up to take Europe and they’re not going to. President Trump came in,

7:01 reminded them all of these realities he had behind closed door sessions, got the NATO kids to go pay their fair share at least commit to it, and then I’m certain that he had a good talk with Zelenski about what the world could look like with his leadership, and coming off the Middle Eastern Operation, I think he had

7:18 even more credibility and then walked out of there with very very strong commitments and respect that he didn’t get the very first time he showed up at NATO eight years ago.

7:30 Speaker 1 Well, that’s the that was my next question. You were part of NATO at one point. How did the NATO go twucks go? Did he get the five percent from everybody? Did he did a couple of exceptions or what do you think?

7:47 Speaker 2 Well, when the NATO Secretary General is publicly calling you daddy, I think he won.

7:54 Speaker 3 But if you look across all of Europe, it was really just Spain that held out would not make the commitment, and they don’t even have to get to the commitment until twenty thirty five.

8:06 Speaker 2 Are you kidding me? Really, it’s just a political defiance against Trump. And what President Trump did was that you know, we’re gonna get that money either way. So if you don’t want to pay your fair share here at NATO, well get used to the idea that I’ll be the negotiator for your trade deal with the United States. And

8:21 that doesn’t look good for you right now.

8:22 Speaker 1 They must have had an oh crap moment.

8:26 Speaker 2 A lot of them had O crap moments. But the good news is that Europe needs President Trump’s leadership. They need our leadership right now because they’re a basket case. They’ve rolled up their own values, They’ve got Islamization going on in several of the countries. They’re locking up people for complaining about rape gangs, They’re doing lots of things

8:49 that are not Western values, and then they have this endless war going on in Ukraine. So if they want out of this, it’s a real good time to get on with the Trump demilitarization doctrine, where Trump actually talks to putin something they would never do. And I think that they if they’ll follow his leadership, they’re gonna all

9:12 do much better and maybe we can put Europe back on a better course. Certainly it’s in our best interest too. But if they won’t take the life preserver, President Trump has a plan for that too.

9:22 Speaker 1 General Blaine Holt, thank you for everything you’ve done for our country. Continue to speak out for our country, and continue to work behind the scenes for our country. Thank you so much. Thank you. John