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on until they believe what you're telling them and then you can tell them anything because you've trained them that it's accurate information. As soon as people believe it's accurate information you own them. Take Walter Cronkite. When I grew up and even today people say you know Walter Cronkite, he was the real news and you got the straight news, no bias. That Walter Cronkite. I wish we could go…

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ing it in front of us.

I'm going to pretend to fight back because that's how my population will feel good that we did something. All right great. We understand that this is a pretend attack so we won't attack back too hard but we might need to do a little bit, just a little mop-up pretend attack after this. And Iran would be, we thought that our pretend attack would be all we needed but I can see that a couple of missiles got through. Yeah damn it. Wasn't as clean as we hoped. Yes you're going to have to probably kill one of our people. Am I wrong that that entire attack from Iran killed zero people? It was one minor injury and I'm not even sure about that. There were zero. It was a major military action with zero deaths. That is a pretend war. That's a pretend war.

Now look at Assange. Assange says that war is basically to transfer assets to other people. Why do you fight a pretend war other than some other reason like putting your assets somewhere else? I don't know. It's all very pretend.

So here's what I think we should do. I think Israel should say that Iran is the problem, not the proxies. Because fighting each other's proxies is a pretend war. It's just theater. Oh I'll pretend I'm fighting you by fighting your proxy. Well damn you I'll pretend I'm fighting back by fighting your proxy. But now you've got this pretend attack on the mainland. Now it was a real attack on the actual homeland of Israel but because both sides knew that their anti-drone defenses would be really good, drones move slowly, I think everybody knew it was going to end this way with not much damage. So that's kind of a pretend war.

But here's how Israel could make it real if they wanted to. I think Israel should demand reparations from Iran because Iran has been their nemesis for years and caused all of their expenses. Iran caused them to spend a billion dollars to defend itself. Iran causes it to defend itself against Hezbollah because they back them. October 7th was because of Iran's backing. Every terrorist attack is because of Iran.

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e's what you do. You take Gaza and you call it reparations and you say hey all you people if you want to resettle, Iran is the cause of this. Iran needs to take you. And if they don't take you we'll just leave you in these camps forever. So because your home is in Iran now. If you let Iran be your daddy, well you live with your daddy. All right. Israel isn't your daddy. Your daddy funded your war.…

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