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Brad Johnson it’s April 22nd and the
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President Trump has just tweeted out a
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much more aggressive policy on and
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probably much a long awaited policy on
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how to deal with harassment of US Navy
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assets in the Gulf by Iranian you know
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I’ve got to quote the article by Iranian
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highly unprofessional and very dangerous
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actions on the seas it’s really if you
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when you watch the video of what these
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guys did it’s clearly not the behavior
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of a professional Navy and Trump has now
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said we’re going to shoot these boats
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down for you know if they continue to
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behave in that way and that seems to be
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a considerable uptick in US policy and
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it’s something that you would expect
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from John but you know the now fired
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John Bolton what do you know about that
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yeah I would be consistent with
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something John Bolton would be happy
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with he was long pushing for a regime
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change in Iran which personally I
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thought was you know a fine idea there
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the creator of a lot of terrorism a lot
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of problems I mean there’s other bad
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actors in the world but certainly
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they’re one of those bad actors so yes
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now President Trump I just gave you
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order out to the military that if
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they’re harassed in that way if there’s
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unsafe things going on unsafe to our
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Navy that then just blow them out of the
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water and be done with it
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and I that is clearly the line in the
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sand that we always used to talk about
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with President Obama of course the
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difference being in in this case the
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ratings would have stepped over it with
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Obama and then the ball would have drawn
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a new land outline in the sand in this
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case I think we all understand that
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Trump means it the Navy understands that
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he means it and the Navy’s going to just
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do that very thing and they don’t like
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this harassment either and it’s it’s the
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whole idea is it’s a propaganda ploy by
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the Iranians they do this all the time
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they do the harassment and they do it
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for domestic consumption essentially to
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show that they’re this powerhouse and
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their navies this you know undefeatable
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it’s it’s it’s the propaganda ploy that
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they’re using it’s something that
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they’ve employed for a very long time
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and we’ve seen them go so far as in the
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previous administration to capture that
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US Navy ship and take these guys
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prisoner and hold them for a while and
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let them go those sorts of ploys they do
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all of the time as I said its domestic
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consumption so that’s what they’re after
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and this is something that I would
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expect them to push a little bit anyway
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they’re going to try to get right up to
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the point where they get shot and then
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back down at that point I wouldn’t be
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surprised if they lost a couple ships
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along the way but this is something
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that’s going to enfold the Iranians have
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got a lot of problems so they need to
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show something to their public to keep
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things tamp down and under control this
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is a regime that is ruling with a very
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cruel dictatorship and an iron fist over
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the people against their will and so
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they’ve got to be very careful of this
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will boiling up and overthrowing the
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regime themselves so this is this is
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very important to them that’s the item
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to take home out of this is how
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important this propaganda ploy sort of
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stuff is from their perspective and why
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they’re doing it so a shoot-’em-up of
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any kind with the US Navy even if they
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just lose a couple of those these little
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boats with two or three people on that’s
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good from their perspective because that
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takes the domestic problems off the
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front page for a while and they can talk
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about the great sake in the United
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States Steve the United States evil
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Trump evil this that or the other and
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they’ll get some good publicity out of
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that for allies that want to work with
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and help Iran which it does have other
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regimes in the area in particular that
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are willing to do that so it is kind of
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a two-pronged in that sense that they
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can then ask for aid or help or support
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or whatever it is they want out of these
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neighboring countries that it’ll
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cooperate with them so that’s what’s
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going on
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that’s what’s playing out and I would as
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I said I would expect this to continue
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to be played by the Iranians they want
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that sweet spot on where they can get
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great propaganda out of it without
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giving the United States to actually
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totally focus on our animal
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take out the regime or something so
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they’ll stay short of that but they will
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they will pay pick this up too and
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perhaps pass that line on on these
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approaches to the Navy u.s. Navy ships
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well as I recall when they did kidnap
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those American sailors and brought them
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to Iran they also forced them to make
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for us your classic World War two style
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statements about how they were being
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treated and then as I recall they sent
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them home with gift baskets so so yeah
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that would that would suggest that it
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was a propaganda effort Brad Johnson
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thank you very much for that that’s also
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something to be watching in the near
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future absolutely thank you
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