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JD Vance's Warning to Israel, the Last Desperate Move of Israel-Firsters & Iran's Growing Strength

Published June 24, 2026 | Video Starts at 1:11:53

We're not being heard. We're GTFO out of here. It does seem like that needs to happen. I don't understand how the United States could be, The U.S. military is totally and obviously unprepared for modern drone warfare. Having watched it in different parts, we helped create it. Well, I'm aware of that and I think we did create it. Really? And well, yeah, yeah. (1:11:53–1:15:34)

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“Over 4,000 Lebanese, almost all of them civilians, killed by Israel since Israel and the United States launched the war against Iran.”
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“They almost have a nuclear weapon. And the delivery device, the intercontinental ballistic missile, the icbm, capable of blowing up Miami.”
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“The United States spent more money defending Israel than Israel spent defending itself.”
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“Our prime minister's been indicted for war crimes in civilized countries.”
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“Qatar sent money to Hamas at the request of Israel.”
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“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…”
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“We definitely don't know with precision how many people have died in the war with Iran.”
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“The official numbers may be 16 [American deaths].”
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“On the Iranian side, the official number is about 3,600. 3,664 about that. Iranians dead combatants and civilians.”
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“Israel...founded by socialists on socialist principles. It's not a free market country. It's run by the government and the military.”
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“Lebanon... is in effect occupied by Hezbollah and has been for a long time.”
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“Israel cajoled, convinced, threatened, however they did, it got the US government to fight this war, a regime change war in Iran, on its…”
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“Maybe [Israel] shouldn't blow up a peace deal that's essential to [America's] survival as an economic power.”
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“Israeli leaders somehow convince control, threaten whatever they did, they overrode the advice of the American President's advisors and…”
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“The Iranian nuclear program was the justification for this regime change effort, for killing the Ayatollah, bombing the girls, school…”
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“Hezbollah has shelled the Galilee or sent drones over the galley and killed people in the galley.”
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“Israel would like to steal the land of a sovereign nation called Lebanon.”
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“Israel's style of war tends to be wildly disproportionate.”
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“A cabinet minister in the Israeli government did just the other day, hours ago, yeah, those are the rules. Kill one of ours, we kill a…”
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“The United States realizes its president, its leadership, that there's no military solution to this.”
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“We can't kill our way out of the war with Iran.”
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“If we keep going, we run out of oil.”
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“We have massive energy reserves in the United States.”
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“Energy, gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, jet fuel... will become too expensive for most people to buy.”
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“We have reached the limit of American power.”
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“Israel's been complaining about whining about inflating the severity of existential threats for know generations.”
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“They killed the head of state and the entire top echelon running the state and new people nobody had ever heard of seamlessly moved into…”
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“Iran has been funding, and it's a little more complicated than this, but they have effectively been funding some of Israel's most dangerous…”
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“We now lack the defensive capacity to send American troops other places in the world if we needed to, because we expended it defending you…”
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“We paid for more of [Israel's] defense than [Israel] did.”
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“Maybe USA needs another Pearl Harbor or 911 to remember who is the enemy and who is the friend.”
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“It was Benjamin Netanyahu himself...after 9/11...who said this is a good thing because it reminds America that we're on the same side.”
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“The United States did not abet the Holocaust. The United States fought the Nazis and hundreds of thousands of Americans died.”
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“United States has done a lot more for Israel than Israel has done for the United States.”
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“There's certainly a massive rise in distrust of Israel.”
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“It's disapproval at the behavior of a secular government that we fund.”
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“The only people who don't understand [the situation] at this point are the bitter enders in the US Congress, in the American neocon…”
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“Fox News...has become in the last year sort of a non stop cheerleader for the most nihilistic kind of military action.”
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“Israel's not really a player, except to the extent that we imbue it with value because our politicians have been lobbied by them.”
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“The Israeli government has abandoned the central tenet of Western civilization, which is justice on an individual basis.”
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“Israel embraces [a standard of] blood guilt.”
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“That is a disaster for Israel.”
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“Now you have, the regional powers are all Muslim states, by the way, majority Muslim states. And they're all kind of hostile to Israel.”
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“Israel spent the last number of decades making bellicose noises at all these governments, assassinating people in their countries.”
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“Israel feels legitimately threatened.”
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“Israel has a very long history of hyping threats.”
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“Israel is under too much pressure. I don't think their leaders are thinking clearly at all.”
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“They were doing a solid for Bibi Netanyahu.”
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“Trump was completely outraged by it, but he humiliated Netanyahu.”
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“We helped create [modern drone warfare].”
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“We've got a bunch of aircraft carriers in production still.”
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“All these members of Congress and Fox News flag pin wearers who are like, we've got the greatest military in the world.”
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“The President says that all the time.”
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“When you drop the standards, they become less impressive.”
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“I don't think I know that the administration has gotten religion on this.”
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“The consequences of proceeding are so severe that not only are they committed to ending this, but they are turning against the president…”
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“Trump has totally soured on Mark Levin.”
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“There was all of a sudden this overnight consensus in the US Congress, throughout Washington, really, that, quote, Assad must go.”
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“I don't see the pre March status quo politically surviving where 95% of members of Congress, whatever, over 90% of members take money from…”
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“Tom Cotton is the driving force behind the idea of giving up the sovereignty of our intel agencies to a foreign country.”
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“He's also, as far as I know, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee and sitting U.S. senator.”
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“Can you have the chairman of the Senate Intel Committee demanding that we have mandatory intel sharing with a foreign pretty obviously…”
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“It was Tom Cotton who expressed concern that the Kennedy F. That all the JFK files would be released.”
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“It's a fact that shortly into this administration, he expressed concern that the Kennedy F. That all the JFK files would be released.”
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“So it's the agenda is more spying on Americans.”
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“No voter id, because why would we want secure elections then like voters would have a say?”
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“Energy prices that drive people into poverty.”
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“Certainly these are decisions made without reference to what people want.”
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