Пересказ: Могут ли американские чиновники столкнуться с обвинениями в военных преступлениях
Источник: Судья Эндрю Напалитано — Judging Freedom (17 марта 2026 г.)
Введение
Эпизод представляет интервью судьи Эндрю Напалитано с политическим аналитиком и экспертом по международному праву Скоттом Риттером. Основная тема обсуждения — обстрел школы в городе Манаб (побережье Ормузского пролива), где погибли 170 детей и учителей, и вопрос о потенциальном привлечении к ответственности за военные преступления американских военных лидеров, включая министра обороны Пита Хегсета.
Бомбардировка школы Манаба: обстоятельства и умысел
Контекст и история объекта
В начале 2000-х годов Иран создал Бригаду ракет Арифа (Arif Missile Brigade) — четырёхбатальонное подразделение, специализирующееся на защите Ормузского пролива. Каждый батальон обладал разными возможностями: от короткодальных до дальнобойных ракет, а также специальные подразделения с торпедами и минами.
Около 2011 года бригада переместилась на новые, более современные объекты, оставив старый комплекс заброшенным. К 2016 году город Манаб получил разрешение на использование бывшего штабного здания этого комплекса в качестве учебного учреждения. Здание было переоборудовано в школу: власти построили отделяющую стену, отремонтировали строение, покрасили фрески и игровые площадки, оборудовали отдельные входы, полностью отделённые от остального заброшенного комплекса.
Критический факт: Министерство обороны США в своих карта Манаба явно обозначило это здание как школу и внесло его в список запрещённых целей (no-strike list). Операция проводилась открыто, США имели полную информацию.
Роль искусственного интеллекта в выборе целей
Пятый флот ВМС США в Бахрейне постоянно вёл разведку против Бригады ракет Арифа. Сбор информации был масштабным:
- Специальные операции с допросом рыбаков
- Дроны, перехватывающие электронные сигналы
- Спутниковая разведка и авиафотография
Все эти данные собирались в целевой палубе (target deck), которая содержала актуальную информацию о расположении бригады. Система включала информацию о том, что заброшенный комплекс был частично переоборудован в школу, а центральная часть — в госпиталь.
Однако после приказа Пита Хегсета на март 2025 года система проверки целей была полностью демонтирована. Вместо этого использовалась программа искусственного интеллекта "Claude", которая сканировала старые данные и генерировала новые цели, включая заброшенный комплекс, который теперь ошибочно классифицировала как "Штабное и командное учреждение Корпуса стражей исламской революции".
Демонтаж системы гражданской защиты
В 2023 году Министерство обороны США создало специальный Блок гражданской защиты (Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response resources unit), задачей которого было предотвращение бомбардировки гражданских объектов. Его функция была критической: проводить последнюю проверку целей перед ударом.
В марте 2025 года Пит Хегсет распустил эту систему:
- 10 человек из штаба CENTCOM (Центрального командования)
- 5 человек из Пятого флота
Вместо соблюдения Международного гуманитарного права и Женевских конвенций была введена новая доктрина: "максимальная летальность", "никаких ограничений в ведении боевых операций", отказ от соблюдения законов войны.
Техническая реализация удара: четыре крылатые ракеты
Объект был поражён четырьмя крылатыми ракетами "Томахок" (Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles), запущенными с эсминцев класса Aegis и подводных лодок:
Первые три ракеты
Три ракеты нацелены на три точки воздействия: два хранилища и штабное здание. Каждая ракета была запрограммирована на прецизионный удар.
Четвёртая ракета
Четвёртая ракета запущена из-за избыточности — примерно 30-50% крылатых ракет не попадают в цель (как показал опыт удара по сирийскому объекту в 2017 году, когда из 59 ракет 23 не достигли целей).
Четвёртая ракета оснащена встроенной камерой, которая передаёт изображение в реальном времени целевым ячейкам для оценки ущерба (battle damage assessment). На основании полученных изображений операторы принимают решение о переориентировке.
Боеприпас: дуальный эффект и топливно-воздушный взрыв
Для поражения в первый раз использовались боеприпасы дуального эффекта:
- Инициирующий заряд пробивает бетонный потолок
- Сердцевина из 350 фунтов титана, с насечками для фрагментирования
- 450 фунтов взрывчатого вещества высокой скорости детонации
При взрыве титан превращается в десятки тысяч острейших осколков, которые распарывают здание и буквально испаряют людей.
Дополнительная смертельная функция: ракеты работают на жидком топливе (JP10) — высокотемпературном горючем. При втором ударе система может выпустить это топливо последовательно, создавая топливно-воздушный взрыв (fuel-air explosive): сначала сжимание, затем огненный шар, сжигающий всё живое.
Последовательность событий: разрушение и зона безопасности
Первый удар
Первая ракета попала в здание, его крыша обрушилась. Дети и учителя оказались раненными, многие погибли. Директор школы начал собирать выживших учеников.
Приказ о вывозе
Из-за других бомбардировок в городе директор приказал родителям забирать детей. Ученики собрались в классах с рюкзаками, готовясь к эвакуации.
Второй удар
Когда дети собрались в "молитвенной комнате" (prayer room) — зоне безопасности, как в торнадо — вторая ракета поразила это помещение.
Результат
69 детей были полностью обуглены в результате топливно-воздушного взрыва. Их тела невозможно идентифицировать. Всего 170 детей и учителей погибли, большинство из них были девочки в возрасте от 6 до 12 лет.
Юридическое обоснование: военные преступления
Умышленность и нарушение законов войны
Пит Хегсет совершил сознательный акт:
- Распустил систему гражданской защиты, которая могла бы предотвратить этот удар
- Введён приказ об игнорировании законов войны ("no regard for the rules")
- Приказ о максимальной летальности, что равносильно запрету на различие между комбатантами и гражданскими лицами
Закон о военных преступлениях (1996)
Закон о военных преступлениях США (War Crimes Act, 1996) прямо запрещает совершение деяний, аналогичных произошедшему. Умышленное убийство детей в гражданском учреждении является классическим военным преступлением.
Женевские конвенции (1949) и Протокол I (1977)
Всё без исключения требует:
- Различия между комбатантами и гражданскими лицами
- Пропорциональности в выборе целей
- Проверки целей перед ударом
Эти требования являются обязательными по Дополнительному протоколу 1977 года и Руководству по законам войны, обязывающему все военные структуры следовать этим нормам.
Международная ответственность
Пит Хегсет — ходячий военный преступник, совершивший одно из самых чудовищных военных преступлений — массовое убийство невинных детей. Нет защиты для совершённого.
Позиция администрации Трампа
Отрицание ответственности
Президент Трамп первоначально заявил, что "Иран бомбил собственную школу". После того, как Министерство обороны опубликовало официальное заявление о причастности США, Трамп сказал: "Я незнаком с докладом, о котором вы говорите".
Игнорирование разведданных
Председатель объединённого комитета начальников штабов дал Трампу полный брифинг о вероятных ответных мерах Ирана:
- Удары по американским военным базам
- Закрытие Ормузского пролива
- Продолжение ударов по Израилю
Директор национальной разведки Tulsi Gabbard также комиссионировала национальный анализ разведданных, который показал:
- Нет иранской программы создания ядерного оружия
- Режим будет укреплён, а не ослаблен
- Нет внутренней поддержки переворота в Иране
- Иран продолжит производство и скрывать ракеты
Все рекомендации были проигнорированы.
Роль советников
Пит Хегсет и другие ястребы (Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent) убедили Трампа игнорировать его разведданные и военных экспертов. Они льстили его эго, называя его "воином" и "летальным". Вице-президент JD Vance молчал, хотя в его прошлом была критика именно таких авантюр.
Отставка директора по борьбе с терроризмом
Позиция Joe Kent
Joe Kent — бывший офицер специальных операций, муж Шеннон Кент, командира ВМС США, убитой в Сирии при бомбардировке ISIS в 2015 году. Kent был консервативным советником Трампа и имел репутацию человека с совестью.
Kent направил письмо президенту и подал в отставку, заявив:
- "Иран не представлял неминуемой угрозы для США"
- Война является незаконной, так как нарушает Конституцию
- Требуется одобрение Конгресса для объявления войны
Позиция вице-президента Vance
Противоречия в высказываниях
JD Vance в интервью заявил:
- "Мы имеем умного президента, а не дурака" — в отличие от Обамы и Буша
- "Я доверяю президенту Трампу"
- "Ошибки прошлого не повторятся"
Это полная ложь:
- Директор национальной разведки свидетельствовала перед Конгрессом, что иранской программы ядерного оружия нет
- Трамп не верит своему директору разведки, но не увольняет её
- Steve Mnuchin и Jared Kushner сообщили, что Иран показал 450 кг урана, обогащённого на 60%, заявляя: "Мы ничего не сделали, если бы мы создавали оружие, мы обогатили бы его до 92% и преобразовали в металл"
- Иран предложил независимую проверку, но администрация отказалась слушать, так как уже решила начать войну
Tramp — это не интеллектуальный лидер, это человек, одурманенный и запутанный. Он даже заявил, что "мы выиграли войну решительно", в то время как Иран продолжает закрывать Ормузский пролив.
Военная стратегия и летальность
Доктрина "максимальной летальности"
Пит Хегсет пришёл в Министерство обороны с доктриной "More Lethal" (более летален). Он распустил всю систему гражданской защиты, заявив, что ""Jag offs" (судьи-адвокаты) не должны диктовать военные решения и что законы войны — это помеха.
Вместо этого была введена доктрина:
- "Мы убиваем, мы ломаем, мы делаем" (We kill, we break, we do)
- "Никаких ограничений в ведении боевых операций"
- "Никаких правил взаимодействия" (No rules of engagement)
Эта культура позволила AI системе "Claude" выбирать цели без человеческого контроля за соответствием законам войны.
Цель операции: "шоковое и трепетное"
Целью был не военный успех, а создание впечатления "подавляющей силы" (shock and awe). Нужно было поражать цели во всей стране, чтобы иранский народ подумал, что США убили Хаменеи и что пришло время свергнуть режим.
Для этого требовалось много "громких взрывов" — отсюда обращение к AI-системе "Claude" для генерации дополнительных целей, которые не имели военного значения.
Положение Израиля и ядерный вопрос
Персидский залив и стратегия Ирана
Иран не наносит случайные удары по гражданским лицам. Иранская стратегия:
- Точные удары по критической инфраструктуре
- Поражение военных объектов и баз
- Разрушение энергетических систем (электростанции в Тель-Авиве, гиперрафинерии)
- Поражение лидерских бункеров и разведывательных центров
Израиль не может защитить себя — иранские ракеты точные, неперехватываемые, мощные.
Закрытие аэропортов и паника
Израиль закрыл аэропорт Бен-Гурион. Люди паникуют и пытаются уехать. Если 20% населения покинет Израиль, это будет конец еврейского государства.
Демографическое будущее Палестины
В Конституции Ирана записано обязательство поддерживать создание Палестинского государства. Иранская военная кампания не просто наказывает Израиль, она создаёт условия для создания Палестинского государства.
Если Израиль депопулируется на 20%, палестинцы станут абсолютным большинством в регионе. За 10 лет не будет государства Израиль, будет государство Палестина.
Ядерный сценарий
Риск ядерной войны минимален, так как:
- Израиль не может использовать ядерное оружие против обычной армии
- Нет волн армий, вторгающихся в Израиль — это коллапс Израиля как еврейского государства
- При использовании ядерного оружия Израиль исчезнет в течение недели
- США могут потерять прибрежный город в результате ядерного терроризма
Вероятнее всего, Израиль добровольно передаст ядерное оружие международному сообществу, используя модель ЮАР, где МАГАТЭ под контролем США будет разоружать израильскую ядерную программу перед коллапсом еврейского государства.
Заключение: обязанность перед законом
Политическое начало
Скотт Риттер и судья Напалитано подчёркивают, что существуют средства ответственности:
- Трамп может помиловать, но помилование не действует за границей
- Военные преступления не имеют сроков давности
- Любая страна может судить виновного — не требуется место преступления
- Возможна демократическая ответственность: импичмент президента и осуждение президента лишает помилования
Позиция American People
Риттер и Напалитано призывают к осознанию:
- Это незаконная война агрессии — величайшее военное преступление, по словам судьи Джексона на Нюрнбергском процессе
- Нет оправдания для убийства детей
- Требуется волна отставок от людей с совестью, подобных Joe Kent
- Американский народ должен потребовать ответственности через конституционные механизмы
Волна отставок
Joe Kent — первый, кто официально отказался участвовать в этой войне. Ожидается волна отставок от офицеров и чиновников, которые понимают Конституцию и знают, что это неправильно.
Ключевые факты и цифры
- 170 детей и учителей погибли при бомбардировке школы в Манабе
- 69 детей были полностью обуглены в топливно-воздушном взрыве
- Дети в возрасте от 6 до 12 лет, большинство девочки
- Четыре крылатые ракеты "Томахок" были использованы для удара
- Боеприпас дуального эффекта с 350 фунтами титана и 450 фунтами взрывчатки
- 30-50% крылатых ракет не попадают в цель (на основании исторических данных)
- Школа была внесена в "список запрещённых целей (no-strike list)" Министерства обороны США
- Министерство обороны имело карты, явно обозначавшие объект как школу
- В марте 2025 года была распущена система гражданской защиты
- 10 человек из CENTCOM и 5 человек из Пятого флота были уволены
- AI-система "Claude" выбирала цели без человеческого контроля
- Закон о военных преступлениях (1996) прямо запрещает такие действия
- Женевские конвенции (1949) и Протокол I (1977) требуют различия между комбатантами и гражданами
- Joe Kent — директор по борьбе с терроризмом — подал в отставку, заявив, что Иран не представлял неминуемой угрозы
- JD Vance остался молчаливым, несмотря на своё прошлое антивоенных взглядов
Географические связи и контекст
- Манаб — город на побережье Ормузского пролива (Strait of Hormuz)
- Ормузский пролив — критическая точка для мировой торговли нефтью
- Бахрейн — база Пятого флота ВМС США
- Иран — целевая страна военной операции
- Израиль — союзник США в конфликте
- Тель-Авив — израильский город, подвергшийся ударам
- Бен-Гурион (аэропорт) — главный аэропорт Израиля
- Сирия — прошлые американские операции (2015, 2017)
- Афганистан — последний дронный удар перед созданием системы гражданской защиты
🧾 Транскрипт (формат)
Undeclared wars are commonplace. Tragically, our government engages in preemptive war, otherwise known as aggression, with no complaints from the American people. Sadly, we have become accustomed to living with the illegitimate use of force by government. To develop a truly free society, the issue of initiating force must be understood and rejected. What if sometimes to love your country you had to alter or abolish the government? What if Jefferson was right? What if that government is best which governs least? What if it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong? What if it is better to perish fighting for freedom than to live as a slave? What if freedom's greatest hour of danger is now? Hi everyone, Judge Andrew Npalitano here for Judging Freedom. Today is Tuesday, March 17th, 2026, St.
Patrick's Day here in the West, particularly in the US and especially in New York, where Scott and I are located. Scott Ritter joins us now. Thank you very much for your time, Scott. Always appreciate it. What happened at the girls school in Thyron where 170 uh young women, children uh and their teachers were incinerated. How how did the US military cause that to happen? >> First of all, it was in the city of Manab, which is right there on the coast of the straight or Hermuz, which why this is so important. Um yeah, what happened is uh in the early 2000s the Iranians began to build uh missile units to designed to shut down the straight or Hermas in a time of crisis. This is especially after Dick Cheney was talking about invading Iran and uh they they created this unit called the Arif missile brigade. It has four battalions.
Uh each battalion has a a specific capability from short to medium to long range missiles and then special units that uh that operate using torpedoes and mines etc. And their their job is to control the street of Hormuz and um they had a headquarters compound um that consisted of a couple warehouses, a couple administrative build, a headquarters building. um around 2011 uh basically the Arif Missile Brigade had outgrown um the facility it was in. So they literally abandoned this facility and they moved to uh to different locations, more modern facilities uh etc. Um and this this place was abandoned around 2016. uh the city of Manab uh put in a bid and and and um had the the northern um corner of it, the former headquarters building. Um they they said they wanted to convert that to a school.
And so they literally built a wall separating this facility, um refurbished the building, painted murals, painted playgrounds, and it opened it up with separate entrances that had nothing to do with the the other abandoned compound. This was done in the public and the United States knew about this. How do we know? Because defense department maps of Manab um when they show this compound clearly mark this as a school and um there's there's no ifands or buts. Now at the same time u you know the fifth fleet in Bahrain has a mission of you know making sure that straight horm can stay open and so they've been running non-stop intelligence operations against uh the Arif brigade. They've been collecting on it. They have special human units that debrief fishermen. They have uh they fly the drones over uh intercepting all the electronic signals.
They have satellites and other aircraft taking photographs. The Arif Missile Brigade is one of the most heavily collected uh units in the world. We know a lot about it. Um and the reason why I bring that up is all that information goes into a target deck and um you know the fifth fleet's responsible for updating it because they're the war fighters. They give it to central command and they keep this updated. We knew with this target deck that we had where the Arif brigade was and where it wasn't. We knew for instance that that abandoned compound had not only been converted partially to a school but the central part had been converted to a hospital. Um we knew this and that was also in the no strike list. the um now we come to the to the war and uh when Donald Trump told Benjamin Ny or Benjamin Nanyahu who told Donald Trump on February 11th that we're going to we need to go to war.
Uh Pete Hedges came in with his genius plan of shock and off you simply you don't go in and just strike the targets that are important because we already had that target deck. We could be bombing the Arif brigade and we did bomb the Arif brigade. Not to much good because they still got the street war was closed but that's another question. um the the we needed more targets because we had to create this impression of overwhelming force coming in so the Iranian people would say my goodness look at the power of America and they've killed Ali Kaman the supreme leader it's time for us to abandon the regime rise up and remove the regime so we needed the shock in all these people we needed bombs to be hitting targets we needed things to go boom all over the country in order to do that you need places on the ground to hit the target deck that was important the target deck that military relevant.
That wasn't enough boom for the buck. We needed more. So, they turned to a AI program called Claude. And uh and Claude went around and just sifted through the old data. And um Claude uh came up with a bunch of targets including that compound which he called Claude called an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Command Naval Headquarters Facility. Um now here's the the the thing. Normally there would be people like me who would receive that and go now outdated information. Throw it away. Um they cut me out of it. It was going into the target dick. But then in 2023 the Department of Defense created a new unit called the um uh C uh what is it? The bottom line is their job was to uh review targets civilian that's it. the civilian mitigation in uh and in and harm uh resources unit. Their job was to make sure that we didn't blow up schools and things. They their job is to do one more scrub.
Now, why would we need this? Because the law of war created people like me who who are supposed to do the job because during the war on terror, we stopped doing that. During the war on terror, we blew up wedding parties. During the war on terror, we blew up hospitals. 2015 AC-130 banging away at a hospital that we knew was a hospital, being directed by special forces that knew was a hospital, but we did it anyways because we just stopped caring about the law of war. The final straw that broke the camel's back was that last drone strike in Afghanistan uh after the troops withdrew, we sent a missile in, killed an aid worker and his family. And that's when the defense department went, "We're doing this wrong. There's a problem here." So, they created this unit.
This unit was mandated to join up with combatant commands and they would scrub every target deck and all the all the commanders loved this unit because it made them back to comply with the law of war. It forced them to do the job the right way, the way it's supposed to be done. It's it's not an interference with our combat duties to do this. It enhances our combat duties because we're hitting the right targets. The best way to create a terrorist is to blow up his home. Blow up the home of a farmer. you just created a terrorist uh and he'll come after you for the rest of his life. Uh the best way to win that war is not to blow up that farm, not to blow up the moss, not to blow up the school. So we had this unit was doing it. Pete Hexath came in and said, of course, that he's going to change the way, change the ethos.
In March of 2025, shortly after um uh President Trump was sworn in, Pete Hexet dissolved this unit. He he he shut it down. The 10 member team that was at Sentincom, gone. The five guys at Fifth Fleet gone. Shut it down. No more scrubbing. And then he came out with his new ethos. We are going to be more lethal. No more stupid rules of engagement. He said, "Leathality. We kill things. We break things. This is what we do." And he unleashed the military. And this was the mentality then rolled into this bombing campaign. Claude generates AI targets. There's nobody screening them. They just get plugged right in because we need to do the big, you know, booming effect. So the the compound got targeted with four TAMs, Tomahawk um uh land attack missiles. They're fired from Aegis. They're fired from um submarines. Four of them because there was three points of impact.
Two warehouses and the headquarters building the cloud called a headquarters building. Now a fourth one goes because you have to have redundancy. There's a certain classified percentage of cruise missiles that don't function. It supposedly got better, but you know, we fired almost 60 cruise missiles into a Syrian chemical weapons compound in 2017 or alleged chemical weapons compound. 23 of them didn't hit their target. That's uh almost 50%. I'm not that's a number because it's a classified number, but a large number of our cruise missiles don't hit their target.
Um, so we brought in a fourth one and its job was after the first three hit the the cruise missile has an onboard camera and it comes in and click click click click click click takes it and then it goes into a loitering pattern while it transmits the data back to the the targeting cell who looks at the imagery decide whether or not they killed the target is their battle damage assessment. So the imagery comes back the guys look at it the warehouses each have a hole where they're supposed to have a hole they say done. The school has a collapse which is one of the criteria of but the thing about the school which we weren't calling the school is a headquarters is the imagery is not that good. It's a you know the pixels aren't aren't that refined.
You don't get great resolution but you can see there's people all around it and the targeter went that's a headquarters and there's a lot of people around there. These are the missile people we need to kill. And so they went back to that loying missile reprogrammed it and had to come in and reattack. Now what they didn't realize is after that first missile hit the building and collapsed the the students had already been assembled there were other missiles hitting in Manob and the principal called the parents said you got to come get your kids. They started to bring the kids in and bring them bring them in get them ready to go home. So the kids are all assembled in their classrooms with their backpacks all that. The first missile hits and it collapsed the building. You got kids screaming, kids dismembered, the whole thing.
But the principal run around grabbing the survivors and taking them. You know how if we have a tornado um we have a safe place in the school. the the the gymnasium or the cafeteria or the library, a reinforced place. They say, "This is your safe place." Well, the safe place in this school was the prayer room. And so the kids started to assemble there, the survivors, the principal's bringing them in, and they get them all packed in there, and then the other cruise missile hits it. And um the warhead they use is a is is is is a a dual effects munition. It can punch through a concrete ceiling, which stay tastes dead. Now, it comes down. It's got 350 lbs of titanium casing. The titanium has been scored so it can break up into tiny little fragments. Inside that's 450 pounds of high-speed high explosive.
So when it it punches through at the initial charge, comes in and then blows up, it turns the titanium into, you know, tens of thousands of razor sharp shards that just gut the building and literally vaporize people, uh, slice them to death and all. And now these aren't bad people. These aren't terrorists. These aren't enemy soldiers. These are 6 to 12 year old girls scared already because they've already been hit. They're hearing their friends scream cuz their friends are in that other building over there collapsed. They're hearing their friends scream, cry for help. The teachers, some of them are dead. They see body parts all over the place. They're scared to death. This thing comes down and literally vaporizes them. There's an extra little bonus here because you see at the uh Los Alamos National Labs, they they said, "Wait a minute, these are liquid fuel cruise missiles.
We still got that JP10 on there." your JP10's high hot burning fuel and uh we need to maximize. So there's another thing you can do as it comes in. You can program it so that last fuel is compressed in and then it can be released sequentially. They have a special uh you know addition to the warhead and it can turn into a fuel air explosive. So boom boom boom and then boom the fireball that kill burns everything. 69 of these children are unreoverable, burn to ashes because of this this munition. This is what we did in order to get the bigger boom. This is a war crime. Pete Hexath is a war criminal. A literal war criminal. No, there's no way he would survive a trial. And he should be fired, arrested, and put on trial. Not by a foreign court, by an American court. Because we have a law, 1996, the uh War Crimes Act. It prohibits this very thing.
This is one of the most illegal things imaginable. There's no defense for what Pete Hit has done. This was intentional. You know that, judge. You know the language. When you have somebody up there saying no regard for the rules, increased lethality. Our job is to kill. And then he goes around and gives orders such as no quarter, which is also illegal. This is a walking talking war criminal in motion who has committed one of the most heinous war crimes possible, the slaughter of innocent children. Um, and this was done solely because of him. He's the one who said, "Disband the unit that would have prevented this." He's the one that said, "Don't regard the laws of war. No rules of we are going in to be lethal." His intent was to kill without regard.
Because if he wanted regard, if you wanted distinction, then you obey the law of war and you review the targets for distinction, which you are required to do under the Geneva Conventions. It is a mandatory requirement of the additional protocol 1977 to the 1949 Geneva Conventions that has been adopted the law war of manual which is the law for the military. Pete Hex said don't obey the law and he said I'm canceling the regulation that made sure that we do obey the law because we hadn't been obeying the law. That's what happened to the children. >> What a what a catastrophe. and Trump will probably pardon him, which is why the only recourse would be a trial elsewhere. The war crimes have no statute of limitations. The president's pardon does not extend outside the United States. And there's no venue requirement, meaning any country uh could try him. Even a country not uh involved in this.
Um >> this is this is president of United States. The president can't pardon. >> Say again. >> Impeach the president of the United States. Convict the president of the United States. And the president can't pardon. >> Yeah. >> I mean, there is recourse in this democracy to hold these people accountable to the rule of law. We the people >> has to be there has to be recourse because the the situation that you described is so barbaric, so uh inhumane. It's simply it's simply mind-boggling. And then Trump said, "The Iranians bombed their own school." And then when the Defense Department itself said, "No, we bombed it." And they asked Trump how he wanted to respond to that, he said, "I I'm unfamiliar with the report you're you're talking about." So, a terrible, horrible, horrific uh state of affairs.
How could the US have so, I'm segueing a little bit, Scott, badly uh miscalculated, misunderstood the Iranian resilience uh and the asymmetric nature of the Iranian uh offensive responses. Well, the the interesting thing is that we we didn't actually. We know now that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff uh briefed Donald Trump on what the likely course of action of the Iranian government would be. Uh we know that they said that they will strike American military bases. Um we know that they uh the they that the president was briefed that the strait hormos would be closed. So we knew that this is predictable. The fact that we didn't have plans to deal with this is different. But the joint chiefs of staff warned the president, "This is what's going to happen." Then we have Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence.
She commissioned a national um intelligence uh um council in um review, intelligence assessment about this. And she said other things such as you won't get regime change. Uh if even if you kill Ali Kam on day one, you'll just strengthen the regime. The people will rally around the government. there's no support inside Iran for this you regime change activity. Um they talked about ballistic missile production. They said the Iranians have been building missiles. They've been hiding missiles. We don't know where these missiles are. Uh and so it's likely the Iranians will continue to launch missiles and drones throughout the period of of conflict and there's nothing we can do to stop it. So the president of United States was briefed on all of this. But he's surrounded by a bunch of sickopants including Pete Hegsth who said we are warriors Mr. President. We have the warriors ethos.
We are lethal. We're the most lethal people in the world. And he basically cheerleaded America into this war. Convincing the president to disregard his intelligence professionals and his military professionals and go with Pete Hson nonwoke. Anybody talking about the law of war is a jag off. That's what he called him. Jag. Jag mean the um the the judge uh uh judge advocate generals. Um but he you know jagoff. He's making fun of them, mocking them as if the law doesn't matter. And the president's going for this because he loves that kind of stuff because it's stroking his ego, making him feel good. And he's surrounded by Marco Rubio who's nodding his head stupidly. Uh Scott Bessins who's nodding his head stupidly. The most stupid people in the world are advising this president. The two people that have a brain on their shoulders.
Um you know, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and Tulsi Gabbard are being disregarded. And JD Vance is in the corner silent. I mean, you know, this was this was JD Vance's moment to stand up and say, "No, Mr. President, uh we can't support this war. this is an illegal war of aggression. There's no justification under the law of war for this. Um and uh you know I'm your vice president. I'm telling you I won't support this. I support the assessment. So but JD Vance remains silent because he's too much of a coward. He wants to be president. So he has to play the game. Um but basically this happened because Donald Trump is not a very smart man. Uh he has no moral compass. Um, he can be easily misled by people who simply stroke his ego and that that gets Donald Trump to go whichever direction they want him to go.
And Pete Hexth is a war criminal itching for a major conflict to prove the lethality of his new improved Department of War. Um, >> here is some uh breaking news. I don't know this person by name, but the United States counterterrorism director Joe Kent >> Yeah. just resigned over the war, saying, quote, "You ready for this, Scott? Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States." Joe Kent was a former special forces officer. Um, probably made famous. I mean, he was a very, you know, um, well-renowned, well- reggarded, but his his wife was a naval special warfare operator, linguist, and she was killed in Syria in a uh, ISIS bombing.
um you know she was very highly decorated, very highly regarded and uh so Kent became you know known as the is is I think her name was Shannon Shannon Kent's husband and he ran for Congress several times in Washington state but couldn't break through the the you know the parties the party system but he he had a good reputation. and he's very conservative, very hawkish, very MAGA and um and Trump appointed him to this position and um you know he he he was qualified for the job. Um but he has a conscience. He's one of those people who actually knows what the Constitution is, knows the oath he took and understands what a real threat is, unlike Donald Trump whose biggest threat in life has been bone spurs. Um you know, Kent was on the front lines. Kent buried his his his wife who was on the front lines. He he knows he knows this stuff. So, he did the honorable thing.
And hopefully, this is the beginning of a wave of resignations of men and women of honor who recognize that what we're doing here is just it's not only wrong. I mean, it's not just that we're losing judge. I mean, that's bad enough, but it's against the law. This is literally the definition of an illegal war of aggression. And you know where wars of aggression stand in the pantheon of international law. Judge Jackson said it's the greatest war crime of all because from this war crime all other crimes are committed. And yet the United States is now willfully carrying out an illegal war of regression. And we know it's illegal because Donald Trump says he doesn't care about the law. He doesn't care about international law. He doesn't need to go to Congress. He doesn't need congressional approval. He's the president. As he told the World Economic Forum, "I am a dictator.
I don't care about international law. I only go with what's here." Well, what's here isn't connected to what's here because what's here doesn't work. and Pete Hexath whispers and hearing what's here starts a beat because somebody's stroking them and off we went to war and finally we have somebody willing to say no I'm not playing this game. >> Uh you mentioned Vice President Vance here is a reporter asking him how can you support the war when you spent your career opposing it. Chris cut number 16. >> I know what you're trying to do Phil. You're trying to drive a wedge between members of the administration between me and the president. What the president said consistently going back to 2015, and I agreed with him, is that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. We have taken this military action under the president's leadership.
I think all of us, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, should pray for a success and pray for the safety of our troops. That's the approach that I've taken. Make it as successful as possible. >> So, there's no hesitation given your past statements with the current operation. >> What do you mean there's no hesitation with my past statements? Given your skepticism of foreign adventurism, you were a critic of the global war on terror previously. >> Well, I think one big difference, Phil, is that we have a smart president, whereas in the past we've had dumb presidents, and I trust President Trump to get the job done, to do a good job for the American people, and to make sure that the mistakes of the past aren't repeated. Absolutely. >> Thanks, JD's been great. >> Saf with a capital S.
And and again, just if the reporters, you know, were worth their salt, um they would have said, "Well, what nuclear program? Your director of national intelligence, who's still your director of national intelligence, testify before Congress saying there is no nuclear weapons program?" Now, President Trump said he doesn't believe her. Then why does she still have the job? >> Right? >> And then I would ask the other question, were you briefed by the DNI going into this about the update based upon what and what was that briefing? Because the answer is yes, you were briefed. And she said, there is no nuclear weapons program. I also would have asked what did Steve Whitoff and Jared Kusher report to you? The very first thing they said the Iranians told them and the answer is that there's 450 kgs of uranium hexaflloride enriched to 60%. Now why is this important?
See Wickoff and Kushner went they're threatening us with 10 bombs. But what the Iranians were actually doing is saying we haven't done a damn thing with this. All you guys accusing us of trying to make a weapon. If we were trying to make a weapon we would have further enriched this material. We'd begin to turn it into a metal and all that. It's in the original condition it was before the June war started. It's all here and we're willing to work with you to verify that it's all here. The Iranians were saying we don't have a nuclear weapons program and we're ready to prove it. And yet the Trump administration didn't want to hear that answer because he ordered the uh diplomacy to take place after he made the decision to go to war. And so the the diplomacy is always a cover, always going to be a lie.
Uh, but everything JD Vance said in there was an absolute lie up to and including that we have a smart president. Now, this president doesn't know anything. This president is a liar. He's confused. I mean, he literally he uh he made a statement yesterday uh to the effect of well, you know, we've won this war. I mean, we've won decisively. It's a it's it's it's over. It's a decisive defeat. Why are the Iranians continuing to shut the straight or muzz? That's not fair, is it? I mean, why don't they just recognize that we've won the war? Does that sound like a smart president to you? It sounds like a diluted man who's confused, maybe, you know, predmentia to kicking in. But there, that's not a normally functioning brain for a commander-in-chief who just took his nation to war and is getting his ass handed to him.
How uh badly, and I'm going to ask you if we know this because of their notorious censorship, uh has Israel been damaged by the Iranian uh counterattacks? Well, the first thing we know is that Israel can't defend itself. I mean, they're carrying out offensive operations, but those offensive operations haven't resulted in a diminishment of the Iranian attacks. The Iranian attacks are constant, continuous, and accurate. Um, the Iranians are specifically targeting critical infrastructure, defense in infrastructure, and then also the infrastructure that is used to power the nation. They've taken out the hyper refineries. They've taken out power stations in Tel Aviv. Um, they've taken out military headquarters, intelligence headquarters. They're starting to strike air bases with great precision. They're striking bunkers, leadership bunkers. Um, and they're hitting what they aim at.
Uh, and the Israelis know this, and this is what was happening at the end of the 12-day war. The Israelis started to see that the Iranians were hitting them with uh, high precision, very destructive weapons that couldn't be shot down. That's why Benjamin Netanyahu was shaking hands, called Trump and said, "We have to end this thing." And that's when Trump made the phone call to the Iranians. the midnight hammer came in. Um, but today there the war continues and and the Israelis seeing every day this war goes on, the Iranians are hitting them with bigger weapons, stronger weapons, more accurate weapons, and these these weapons are hitting their targets. These are not indiscriminate attacks against Israeli civilians. If there were, the death count would be through the roof. Um, these are very precise, precision strikes against well-defined targets, and they're achieving their results.
The Israelis are in a state of panic right now. They don't know what to do because they can't stop the missiles from being launched and the United States hasn't succeeded in toppling the regime and so this war goes on but every day it goes on the Israelis are getting struck. They closed Bengarian airport the other day. Nobody can leave and the the airport is full of people who are panicking right now. They say we have to leave. What's going to happen is that Israel is going to become uninhabitable uh to a significant percentage of their population. And when the airport does leave, when the ports open up, you know, they may lose 20% of their population. When that happens, that's the end of Israel. Once Israel starts to depopulate, um, you know, the the demographics of the region alone speak to the fact that the Palestinians will become the the vast majority.
And we won't be talking about a state of Israel in 10 years. We're talking about a state of Palestine. This is what the Israelis fear and this is what's happening. This is the result of what the Iranians are doing. And people need to realize the Iranians understand this. Iran is the only nation that has in their constitution a clause that says that they are constitutionally obligated to support the state of Palestine, the creation of the state of Palestine. And so Iran is carrying out military actions against Israel, not just designed to punish Israel, but designed to create the the the uh framework in which a Palestinian state can exist. And this requires a defeat of the greater Israel Zionist cause. >> Here's um foreign minister Arachi whom you and I have met uh talking about this very subject. I believe it's earlier today. Chris number 17.
>> When we say we do not want a ceasefire, it is not because we are seeking war. It is because this time this entire conflict must be brought to a definitive conclusion in such a way that our enemies will never even contemplate the possibility of repeating these attacks and this aggression. And I firmly believe that even up to this very moment they have already begun to absorb a very profound and lasting lesson. >> Already begun to absorb a very profound and lasting lesson. How um reasonable is it to fear that the Israelis backs to the wall, cities crumbling, will resort to nuclear? >> We're not there yet. But um that is if this war continues going this way and we start to see the demographic adjustments, uh the Israelis are going to come to to have what is known as a come to Jesus moment, even though they're Jewish.
Um and basically they're going to have to confront the fact that um the Israeli Jewish homeland experiment has failed. And at some point in time there's going to be a singularity called Palestine that will be governed by a Muslim majority. Um the question then is do they use nuclear weapons? The answer is no. They they won't because there just won't be any justification. What there's not waves of armies coming. We're talking about the collapse of Israel. Um, and then so what do you do? You voluntarily give them up. You use the South African model. And I believe at that point, Israel will go to the United States and United States will approach the International Atomic Energy Agency and Israel will make a declaration and the IAEA supervised by the United States because we're not going to let anybody else get in there.
we're going to go in there and we're going to take apart the Israeli nuclear weapons program uh right before Israel collapses as a Jewish state becomes a a mixed um Jewish Muslim Palestinian state. That's the direction I'm seeing. I'm not worried about Israeli nuclear weapons going out because this isn't land armies seeking to overrun Israel. This is Israel starting a war, starting a war, opting into a war and then losing this war. Um and you know Iran will be pounding in with missiles. What what will Israel do? what targets will they strike and Israel has to understand that if they do that that 450 kg of highlyenriched or not 60% enriched uranium hexaflloride will be converted into 92% enriched uranium metal that'll go into up to five warheads that will make Israel disappear.
Uh the I don't believe the Iranians have done the bomb, but if the bomb gets dropped on them, it won't get what it needs to get. And the Iranians will respond by taking Israel off the map in a matter of a week or two after that if Pakistan doesn't do it first. Once you start using nuclear weapons, you know, we're living in a day of an age where there is no arms control. It's why I wrote that book that you wrote the the wonderful uh comments to Highway to Hell. It's about a world without arms control. And that's what we're living in right now. We literally in literal nuclear anarchy. And um if Israel were to use nuclear weapons against Iran, uh there is a 100% guarantee that Israel would cease to exist and a possibility that the United States would lose a coastal city as well to nuclear terrorism because the United States is responsible for this.
The the Islamic world is not going to sit by silently, well, Israel nukes Iran. That just isn't going to happen. So I think when push comes to shove, the Israelis rather than using these nuclear weapons will voluntarily turn them over to the international community to dispose of so that uh these weapons don't fall in the hands of uh an Islamic State. >> Wow. Uh I have Joe Kent's letter. I would love to read it, but it's way too long. But it's a very very he sent it to the president. It'll be on the front pages tomorrow or posted in an hour or so. Uh it's very very direct and accuses in accuses the Israelis of deluding the president exactly what you uh have told us about Scotty. Scott thank you very much. Thanks for your passion and thanks for your extraordinary knowledge of the way all these things work. Deeply and profoundly appreciated. >> Thank you very much for having me.
>> Of course. All the best my dear friend. Well, uh, we'll post this letter, uh, we'll post this letter for you at Judge Knap. Coming up later today at 1:00 this afternoon on all of this, Aaron Mate at 2:00 this afternoon on all of this, Matthew Hoe, fellow Marine uh, with Scott. And at 3:00 this afternoon, Colonel Karen Quowsky, Trust Palano for Judging Freedom. Heat. Heat.