there's something deeply unreported about this. There's something about the story we're missing, and whatever that is is going to be interesting, but we'll probably never find out anyway. Don't believe the news.

Speaking of the news, Russia allegedly, here's another one I don't believe. So I saw this on social media, so I'll tell you what it says but I don't believe it, that Russia is going to block Google, iOS, and Android. What would they use if it doesn't use those? Now blocking Google seems possible, but how do you block iOS and Android? Is there some operating system? Is it a Chinese operating system? Will they just go China products? Maybe. But why would they do this? It's probably for security, right? Is it for security or is it just to damage the US's dominance in the industry? Don't know. But I would think that if Putin doesn't trust Google, iOS, and Android, maybe you shouldn't either. And again, just assume you have no privacy. Russia probably isn't happy with giving up their privacy, but we already have, so it's no real difference.

We're all waiting breathlessly for any moment now Iran to respond and attack Israel, maybe through proxies, because Israel murdered the head of Hamas's political wing while he was in Iran in the guesthouse. And Iran is saying that Israel crossed all their red lines. Their response will be swift and heavy. And then the US is sending military forces there. So we'll have a strike group and we'll have some more aircraft and whatever assets we need just in case.

Now of course it's being presented as this is a way to reduce violence because it'll maybe make Iran think they don't want to do too much. But to me it's always so weird when two countries at war do war theater. Now when Israel takes out one of the leaders of Hamas, that's not a theater. That's militarily strategic. But when Iran responds, isn't that purely theater? Because Iran's response, nobody expects it will change anybody's future behavior. They just have to act like they look like they can do stuff. So whatever they do is just going to be some weird theater thing. And if they go too far, they will invite more destruction on themselves than they want.

So they've got this weird little situation where they have to do something theatrical that maybe kills an Israeli if they get what they want, but they can't do anything that's important. So what's that leave you? You can't do anything important but it can't actually make a difference, because if it makes a difference that would be too dangerous for Iran. So it might be like that last thing where they warned the US, well there might be an attack, you might want to duck and get in holes, and we don't want to kill anybody but we got to make a theatrical attack so everybody hear it comes.

And so it looks like they're not going to give a warning this time, or at least that's what we're told. Maybe they will. But here's my prediction. I think Israel is going to degrade Hezbollah and they're just looking for any excuse now. They don't need an excuse because Hezbollah has been continuously attacking forever. What they need is for the Israeli public and the American public to say, oh there's a good excuse. So I don't think Iran has ever been in a more perilous situation. Because if they do something theatrical that everybody can agree was a nothing, maybe things just chug along the way they have been. But they say Israel crossed a red line, which means an appropriate response would also cross a red line.

Now can they find a red line that they think is a red line that they crossed while Israel can argue, well that wasn't much of a red line, and the US can say, well I see they tried but we shot down all their missiles so it was sort of a nothing. This one's going to be really interesting. I think the hardest part will be Iran trying to figure out something that's the right message and th