Tucker and Vivek Ramaswamy look at what might potentially happen if we rush right into war with Iran on top of our own problems and Ukraine. Highlights include:
“No decent person can watch the video of young people being murdered at a music festival in southern Israel without feeling horrified. It’s awful, and there’s no excusing it. No matter what you think of Israel’s policies in Gaza, you are not allowed to shoot people at music festivals. That’s a crime. Israel has a right to respond to that crime and to defend itself, no one seriously contests that. The question for American policy makers, however, is what do we do next? How do we represent the interests of the United States in this chaotic moment? That’s not a selfish question, it’s the whole point of making policy for a country, to improve and protect that country.”
“It used to be obvious, but it’s worth remembering now because the conflict between Israel and Hamas could escalate into war between Iran and its allies and the west. Once a war like that starts, you can easily imagine the use of nuclear weapons and all that entails. Millions dead, the collapse of the global economy. At the very least, you could see an unprecedented energy crisis here. Already gas in one Bay Area service station hit $7.29/gallon over the weekend. If that trend worsens and persists, the United States, which is already, technically speaking, bankrupt, would plunge into depression, and no, it would not be like the 1930s.”
“What exactly would happen to the United States if we declared war on Iran and started blowing up their infrastructure? Lindsay Graham has no clue what would happen, he hasn’t thought it through.. He doesn’t care. But neither, amazingly, to most of his colleagues in Washington. They’re as reckless as he is.”
“Wars beget more war. The bigger the conflict, the uglier and longer lasting the consequences. See World War 1 for details. These are not complex observations, but they seem lost on our leadership class. Alone among candidates running for the Republican nomination for president, Vivek Ramaswamy dared to suggest that, actually, going to war with Iran might not be in America’s national interest.”
“We have a bad habit, while we’re bankrupt, funding both sides of wars that should have been avoided in the first place. Look at the money that’s indirectly found its way to Hamas, the $6billion paid to Iran in the recent ransom, that was a disaster. Yet, we’re effectively now funding both sides of a war that we shouldn’t have been in in the first place in places like Russia and Ukraine, even. Think about how we hampered oil production in the United States and then now have US funding going to Ukraine in fighting back against Russia. It’s a bad habit of the United States, and we need leaders here who will look after what advances American interests.”
“…One of the things we can do is learn from both the successes, and in this case, a bad failure in the case of our ally. To say if we have borders that are as open as ours, even Israel that had a border as tightly protected as its own saw this happen, we could have far worse or the equivalent happening right here at home.”
“What advances American interests? Yes, stand firmly for what’s right and wrong diplomatically and otherwise, but do it in a way that responsibly looks after American interests first, and that’s the real divide in the Republican party. I do think we have a real, fundamental, ideological divide in the Republican party, and we ought to be able to have that debate in the open.”
“Some people do have ideological commitments that are outdated that are earnest, but a lot of it comes down to money. The corrupting influence of Super PACS on the process… Get the influence of Super PACS and megamoney out of politics.”
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Ep. 29 After the Hamas attacks, what’s the wise path forward? pic.twitter.com/AwWkcLFUBb
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 9, 2023
