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Tucker Carlson: “Thank God, we did not get lured into a regime change war.”

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Tucker Carlson on the Israel First Meltdown and the Future of the America First Movement

Published November 13, 2025 | Video Starts at 06:01

It bombed Iran and spent billions to protect Israel once again from the inevitable, the predictable conventional response from Iran, et cetera, et cetera. And in the end, Thank God, we did not get lured into a regime change war. But the bitterness lingered. And the total unwillingness of the people pushing for that war to state their aims, to be honest about what they wanted and to defend what they wanted remained. (06:01–06:05)

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Asserts that the U.S. did not engage in a regime change war with Iran.

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“The Soviet regime... committed genocide against Christians. Most people don't even know that it did more efficiently than Nazis did.”
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“Venezuela has banned pornography, banned abortion, banned gay marriage, banned sex changes, and banned usury.”
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“63 million abortions in the United States since Roe v. Wade.”
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“There are payday loans in this country that are 600% annually.”
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“The average American home buyer, American born homebuyer, is almost 40 years old.”
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“The year I graduated from college, it [average age of homebuyer] was 28.”
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“Barry Weiss is at the top of that list. Here's a media executive, the head of CBS News, whose real interest is imposing censorship on the…”
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“And that was to get American support for regime change, war in Iran to overthrow and replace the government of Iran, which the nation of…”
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“Iran has all kinds of very dangerous conventional weapons. The United States spends a lot protecting Israel from those missiles.”
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“Israel wouldn't last three days in a war by itself against Iran. In fact, probably not even 24 hours.”
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“No honest person suggests or would suggest that it could. It needs the United States.”
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“There have been quite a few, most notably Iraq.”
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“There's no evidence that any regime change war we've engaged in in the past couple of generations has helped us.”
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“In June, the debate ended and the United States did commit military force to Iran. It bombed Iran and spent billions to protect Israel once…”
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“Censorship is totally incompatible with Democratic government, period. And it's also, by the way, illegal under the First Amendment to the…”
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“Republicans just won an election on that platform [against censorship].”
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“Mark Levin [believes] there are Americans whose DNA makes them less than human, unsalvageable, inherently evil.”
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“Mark Levin [is] calling for violence against [people he deems inherently evil].”
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“Mark Levin [is] calling people Nazis.”
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“It's an argument about to what extent should US military power be used on behalf of another country, not the United States.”
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“October 7th led to Gaza.”
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“Mark Levin has repeatedly called for just murdering civilians, children in Gaza.”
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“That's the Israeli government's attitude, well documented attitude. We're paying for that.”
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“BB Turns out, let them in. We found out today in the Knesset.”
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“Calling people Hitler leads to violence.”
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“AIPAC is a foreign lobby. It should register as one.”
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“Our country should come first in the thinking of every person represents our country.”
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“Some of them really think that [Vladimir Putin is the single most dangerous person in the world].”
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“The election of Trump was really a refutation of that [Washington's priorities].”
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“They're telling us now that Iran is the biggest problem we've ever had.”
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“Ben Shapiro spent, I don't know, a decade posing as someone who actually cared about your concerns as an American.”
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