Pete Hegseth’s Fortress America plan promises that every US military base can run for 90 days with the civilian grid down. It says nothing about the cities going dark around them. Charlie and Peter ask the obvious question: who is this fortress for? Peter weighs money grab against real war planning, and both land on a military that has drifted from protecting Americans toward serving globalism and Zionism, with the brass preparing to ride out a catastrophe the public will be left to absorb.

From there, a federal judge bragging about ferrying his colleagues to Israel, a Likud MK telling the world that being hated is “your problem,” and a crowd of twenty-year-olds who clearly disagree. Israel’s election has produced a deadlock, Netanyahu stays in office possibly until April, and Peter argues the post-election window is more dangerous than the pre-election one because Trump’s brake on a joint Iran strike lifts after the midterms. The 18 Arab seats that could end Netanyahu sit untouched because nobody will be seen working with them.

Finally, Ukraine. Russia punched a hole in Kiev’s main Dnieper bridge, and Charlie wants to know why it took three years. Peter’s answer: Putin bet that restraint would buy a deal, the West read it as weakness every time, and Iran made the same mistake until February 28. Can a West carrying World War Two levels of debt and no industrial base actually fight the war it keeps threatening? And when the Dnieper becomes the line, what happens to the rump state on the other bank?

0:00 Fortress America: Hegseth’s plan and what it really says4:20 A fortress that keeps Americans outside7:11 Has the military stopped belonging to America?13:11 Could the blackout come from inside?14:54 Every Western leader is underwater17:04 Judge Roy Altman and the Christian Zionist core25:01 Israel’s election deadlock: Netanyahu vs Eisenkot26:34 Why the post-election window is more dangerous for Iran29:47 The war powers Congress refuses to use35:37 Eighteen Arab seats nobody will touch40:47 Feiglin: “It’s your problem”46:23 James Fishback and the generation turning on Israel49:40 Russia hits Kiev’s bridges: why now?56:41 Can a bankrupt West fight a world war?1:02:45 Ukraine’s endgame and the Dnieper line

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