You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Let make sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Buck Brief. We're going to talk about the ongoing war in Gaza and what the implications of this are likely to be in the days ahead.
First of all, you've.
Probably seen the photos of very heavy damage to parts of the main areas and inhabited areas of Gaza, serious destruction from these air strikes. Israelis have called up three hundred thousand reservists and they're going to be making their way through what will be a hellish urban warfare landscape. This is a part of what's coming that I think not that many people have really prepared for.
This group.
Hamas is a gorilla warfare unit essentially. I mean, this is they this is what they train in unconventional obviously terrorist tactics. But they'll be using their familiarity with this terrain and their ability to set up in advance to try to bring about heavy Israeli casualties in these forces.
We also know that.
They have hostages that they have seized over one hundred and fifties of reporting that we've seen so far, and there are number of missions and efforts underway to try to get those hostages. That obviously complicates matters though, because you don't want to have hostages hostages who are casualties from say an air strike in this process. So there have to be precautions taken as a result of that, as well as the Israelis taking precautions to limit general
civilian casualties to the greatest degree possible in Gaza. But I do think that given the atrocities that Hamas has committed against Gaza, well the atrocities in the attack, the sneak attack that we've seen, I'm sorry that Hamas has committed against Israel, the Israelis are going to be even more willing to go with attacks and strikes that have risks. There will be risks entailed in these moves, There will
be risks to some of the civilian population. We know that there is an effort to try to get some of these civilians out through Egypt through the land border crossing. Understandably, there's a lot of complications here with who you're going.
To let out.
Are you going to let out people who are claiming to just be inno cent civilians, but they're actually Hamas fighters. I think that Israel's ability here to both bring together its intelligence, air superiority and its exceptionally capables means that it is up for this fight. It is ready to take this fight to the enemy. But this could get very complicated very quickly if that northern front with Hesbelah
were to open up. Hesbela is better armed, better equipped, better trained than Hamas is and would be able to fire so many rockets, so many missiles at Israel that it would overwhelm some of the capabilities of the Iron Dome. Is obviously not a perfect system. Sometimes there are things that will there are rockets, there are missiles that will get through in those cause civilian casualties and damage. So the possibility of Hesbela entering this conflict is a very
concerned That's a very concerning development. It's why Tony Blinken has gone over to this part of the world. That's why Tony Blinkin is over there negotiating right now, trying to do what he can on behalf of the Biden administration to prevent this escalation into a wider war. Because the way things go here if it's Domino's. You have Hamas already igniting this conflict with the most horrific terrorist attack we've seen since nine to eleven. Now you have
the possibility of Hesbela entering. Remember Hesbel is a proxy force effectively of Iran, is an extension of Iranian aims in the region, and Hesbela works very closely and is trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards KULDS Force COULDS force Coulds by the way, means Jerusalem in Arabic or in this case, I guess, I think it's probably the same FARSI.
I don't know.
The point is kuds force is about Jerusalem, and they use IRGC COULDS Force training. That's the external operations arm of the IRGC, and they so they have made Hesbela's capabilities even stronger, even higher than they would otherwise be just through direct resource support, you know, giving them munitions, things like that. So they have advanced tactics, explosives training. So hesbel expanding would be a major escalation. Beyond that, there's the very real possibility that you could see more
direct Iranian involvement. Remember the Iranians sent have sent militia into Iraq or they've really trained and then infiltrated their own militias into Iraq. They have sent fighters to Syria, they have backed the Houfi militants in Yemen. So a lot of this through the IRGC he coolds force. So Iran has long standing practice and ties of assisting these terrorist elements in the region directly with man, material and force. So we could see that. Now, what would the Israeli
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brod a broader war. So he's in Israel trying to discuss what the next steps are. Obviously, we're taking a position of solidarity here with the Israelis, as we should. Israel is on the side of civilization, Hamas is on the side of barbarism in this conflict. I think it couldn't be more clear. And so this is the way
the US should be acting. We should be going to the aid excuse me of our ally Israel doing everything that we can, but we also don't want this to expand into a broader conflict, bring about a whole lot more casualties and create much more destruction in the region. This is a war between Israel and Hama right now. We do not want it to be a war between Israel and Hamas and then a bunch of others coming
in on Hamas's behalf. We also have to be aware of the extent to which we're willing to engage here and what we're willing to do on behalf of our ally. As we know, us entanglements in the Middle East now for decades have brought us to.
Some very very unwise places.
In terms of what our strategy has been, whether it's the twenty year war in Afghanistan, the regime change war in Iraq, the regime change war in Libya. So there's a little bit of a hesitation, I think, and rightly so, whenever you're talking about matters of war and peace, how involved are we.
Going to get in this.
I'm sure there'll be special operations off books, so to speak, working closely with the Israelis. That would be my expectation. That's the right thing, But I think there also will be some limitations placed on how are we're willing to go on behalf of our ally Israel here. Basically, you know, we don't want the US to directly engage in this war.
The Israelis can handle it. We're going to give them the material, the support, the intelligence, assistance, whatever it is that they need in order to bring about the most efficient conclusion to this conflict once they have achieved the goal, which is the eradication of Hamas, and that.
Should be the goal on all of this.
I want to talk about Biden though for a second here and what this is all a reminder of Biden as commander in chief. Will we see a new currency system introduced by the Biden administration before the end of the year. According to former Wall Street insider and digital currency expert Tiket Tawari, that could well happen. We might
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A whole range of ways.
And you'd like to think, you'd like to believe that you have with Joe Biden, somebody who has a baseline of competency, who has a baseline understanding of what the regional issues are. But then you look at this guy and you realize he's not just too old to be president. And I mean cognitively too old, I mean mentally, he's too old to do any job that's stressful and requires judgment, endurance and ability to really focus and have tremendous energy to expend on something he's too old to have for
any of that. And so this goes back to what a crazy situation we're in here. Because I still do believe that the Democrat mindset is as long as it's not Trump, it's fine, and therefore will support Joe Biden. They will push for Joe Biden. They will do everything they can in order to make sure that he is the president of the United States, because they figure that the system, the system is what's really going to run things. So it doesn't matter whether Biden is capable or not.
It doesn't matter whether Biden actually is in a position to make decisions that are for the benefit of the country, right, because other people are going to be the ones that are making the real calls.
But when you.
Start to see now a second war breakout, right, we already have Ukraine Russia, and that's something of in a stalemate situation. It's trench warfare.
I get it.
We already have that underway. And I think you can make a very clear case that or make a very strong case that this would not have occurred if Donald Trump was president. I do think that that's fair. I do not think that Vladimir Putin would have gone into Russia the way that he did if Trump or president. I think with Biden, he saw weakness, he saw somebody who he could see steps ahead, he could see several moves ahead on the chess board and was not concerned
about what the response would be. So this is where you realize the term the title commander in chief, it has real meaning, it has real meaning. This is the guy who, pardon the expression, the buck is supposed to stop with and with Russia Ukraine. We're already we're having massive expenditures and there's always in the background the possibility of some miscalculation or escalation. There there is no end in sight to that conflict. And that has happened on
Biden's watch. And now we have hopefully the ability to contain what's going.
On with Israel and Gaza.
But beyond, you know, beyond the immediate, we don't know what's going to happen. We don't know what's going to happen in this war between Israel and Hamas. And to have Biden and some of his senior advisors be the ones that are supposed to be helping to calm things down and to help help our allies, help Israel face down this evil and make sure that it doesn't turn into a broader conflagration. I don't have faith in the Biden administration. I don't have faith in the people who
are calling the shots and who are in charge. So I think it's important that we all see this for what it is. This is an incompetent Biden administration with a poor with a weak foreign policy. The only places on foreign policy that it has done a good job are things that are effectively a continuation of Trump policies, like with China. So it just didn't mess things up.
But that's not something I think that people would necessarily view as inherently something to celebrate, right, I mean, just not destroying things is not a very that's not a very high bar. So I'm continuing to look, continue to watch this very closely, and I am very.
Hopeful the Israelis are able to.
Eradicate Hamas, capture or kill all leadership, and end the threat to their south once and for all without Hesba or any of the other players getting further involved in it.
And we'll watch this closely.
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