JD Vance’s Warning to Israel, the Last Desperate Move of Israel-Firsters & Iran’s Growing Strength
6/25/20261 hr 52 min
It took a while, but Donald Trump has finally figured out that the biggest threat to his administration is Israel. Brandon J. Weichert is the publisher of The Weichert Brief on Substack, www.weichert.substack.com, and the Senior National Security Editor at 19FortyFive.com, a defense publication. He is the author of four bestselling books, most recently of “A Disaster of Our Own Making: How the West Lost Ukraine.” He can be followed via Twitter @WeTheBrandon. Paid partnerships with: Black Rifle Coffee: Promo code "Tucker" for 30% off at https://www.blackriflecoffee.com StopBox USA: Get firearm security redesigned and save 10% off @StopBoxUSA with code TUCKER at https://stopboxusa.com/TUCKER American Financing: NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org. APR for rates in the 5s start at 6.327% for well qualified borrowers. Call 800-685-5696 for details about credit costs and terms. Visit http://www.AmericanFinancing.net/Tucker. Hallow prayer app: Get 3 months free at https://Hallow.com/Tucker
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First 90 secondsTucker Carlson· Host0:00
It's always a kind of sketchy proposition to cite casualty figures in the middle of a war, because if there's one thing combatants, governments lie about, it's how many people have died. You can almost never get a straight answer. Everybody lies about it. They're lying about it now. Four and a half years in, we really have no idea how many Russians, Ukrainians, or people from other countries have died in the Russia-Ukraine War, and we definitely don't know with precision how many people have died in the war with Iran. But we thought it'd be interesting just to pull up the official numbers to the extent they exist. We don't know, by the way, with total certainty how many Americans have died. The official number's maybe 16. Is that true? We, we hope it's no more. Every death is a tragedy, but we just don't know. But there are official numbers, and so again, just as a, an exercise, as something that might reveal a deeper truth, we pulled up the numbers a minute ago. So here are the numbers. On the Iranian side, the official number is about 3,600, 3,664, about that. Iranians dead. Combatants and civilians, majority civilians, as is true in every war. Uh, 3,600. But that's not the biggest total of dead in a country in the last three months since this war broke out in the Middle East, launched by the United States and Israel. The biggest number of dead is not in Iran. It's not in a Gulf state. It's in Lebanon. Lebanon? Yeah, over 4,000