Here's Jake Sullivan of all people,

President Biden's National Security

Advisor for 4 years.

Um, actually questioning some of the

Biden decisions, but here he says the

Gulf states are questioning their

relationship with the United States. I

think he's right, but I'd like your

thoughts on it. Chris, number four.

>> I think that they are now questioning

the basic model upon which they've built

their security, which has been

essentially a deep partnership, security

partnership with the United States,

including forward-deployed American

bases in their countries. I think now

they're asking themselves, what are we

getting for that? And do we need

basically a more diversified approach

that involves a degree of hedging with

other powers, maybe including China, and

definitely includes quiet diplomacy with

Iran to try to make sure that they're

de-escalating with their neighbor across

the strait.

>> I mean, that's really profound given who

it's coming from.

>> Our mutual friend uh Larry Johnson would

say, "Captain Obvious, Captain Obvious."

What he's saying is the real sea change

having to do with the whole Gulf states

there. They've shown themselves uh to

have relied on the wrong power. They

thought the US would be able to protect

them, and the Iranians threatened, "No,

you're not going to be immune. We're

going to hit you really bad if you

attack us." They the US and Israel

attacked them, and and they suffered the

consequence. They're severe damage to

the all those military bases, especially

one in Bahrain, which is pretty much um

demolished. I was going to say uh

well, it's been demolished, and it's the

head of the fifth uh the fifth US naval

fleet. So, that's no more available.

Here's Jake Jake Sullivan coming in well

after the game, never having having

thought of this before. The Iranians

tricked us by doing what they threatened

to do, namely take after our bases as

well as Israel and Lebanon. And my God,

we have to look at China now. And well,

he should have looked at that when he

was working for Biden, in my view.

>> Is the United States military as

secretive

uh as the IDF when it comes to censoring

uh damage to itself?

I mean, why don't we see pictures of the

destroyed naval port in Bahrain on the

front of the New York Times or the

Washington Post?

>> Well, the same reason you don't see

other unsavory things like oh, what

the National Director of Intelligence

Tulsi Gabbard has said about uh Fauci

lying through his teeth about the

origins of COVID-19.

If it's not a part of the narrative that

they want to promote, it doesn't appear.

If it is part of the narrative, as this

heinous article in Washington Post today

is about Bucha, saying that the Russians

slaughtered all those people in Bucha.

And then there's a little thing say the

the Russians deny it. Well, the Russians

have asked the UN to come up with the

evidence. They've given names. They've

given all kinds of stuff. And uh the

head of the UN uh has not deigned to

request to to answer their questions.

And this came up several times at the UN

Security Council with the with the

Russian uh Russian ambassador to saying,

"Look, you know, maybe the UN is not

even worth its salt if it can't if it

can't pursue this and investigate it.

That's all we want. We want an

investigation." In my view, it's very,

very clear. It came at the time that

Boris Johnson uh put the kibosh on that

Islamic uh the Istanbul Accord. And uh

they needed something to blacken the

Russians. So, MI6 came in very secretly

and very successfully given this piece

in the New York in the Washington Post

today. It says "The bend the narrative

into the fact that the Russians

slaughter people whenever they get a

town in Ukraine." That's not so, but

most Americans believe it to be so.