Title: Kiriakou: Washington Has No Say in This War
Show: Unfiltered With S.A.M.
Date: 2026-04-03
URL: https://youtu.be/p8Ar9pc_twk
Duration: 12:00

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[00:00] Cuz they can take those for the next hundred years. Yeah. Are you going to put boots on the ground and then tell Americans to expect ten thousand dead soldiers in the next six months? So now we're stuck. And >> [cough and clears throat] >> there's also the video circulating recent footage by the sun in the UK showing the Iranian missiles emerging from underground silos that are completely like you can't tell it's the desert. There's no even like there's nothing to tell that below that there's anything, you know, and um

[00:30] >> [snorts] >> The the the the announcement they made yesterday from Iran that future launches will carry warheads exceeding one ton. Future attacks each war each missile will be carrying warheads exceeding one ton. I mean for twenty years the US failed to defeat the the the Taliban in Afghanistan when all they were hiding in the mountains and in the caves were AK-47s and RPG launchers and you know, hidden weapon caches. So how are they going to how are they going to

[01:01] defeat this? We're not talking about RPGs and AK-47s. How how realistic I mean of course you can bomb bomb an underground facility just like they did with Nasrallah but you need to know where it is and they don't know where these ones are. No, they don't know. They don't know. That's why they had to use a 30 ton bomb last year when when bombing Iran. Because they had an idea where it was, they weren't sure if there was anything in it and then Trump being Trump said

[01:34] last year that the entire Iranian nuclear program had been obliterated. That was his word, obliterated. So either he lied, he was tricked, or he's too stupid to know that he wasn't able to obliterate it. Yeah, because if >> And now we're in a war. If it's been obliterated then why are you stating now that you're going to you you've you've gone to this war because they were days away from producing a nuclear weapon which is something we've been hearing for 30 days from Bibi Netanyahu.

[02:05] >> You know, there's a video there's a video going around. Exactly. There's a video going around of every time Netanyahu said on the floor of the United States Congress that that Iran is six months away from a nuclear Uh-huh. Yeah. Uh-huh. I think Americans Americans are now coming to realization of this though. We're aware of these lies. Yes.

[02:36] You know, there's a kind of a mystery going on right now too, Susie, as to where exactly Netanyahu is. There were reports that he was in Germany, he was hiding in Germany. I heard today he's hiding in Cyprus. Wherever he happens to be, he's hiding. You know, what kind of wartime leader is that? Yeah. Well, I mean they seem to to be on the on his tracks a whole lot now. I mean they seem to know it's it's kind of like they're using his playbook now, you know, I don't know how

[03:06] they've managed. Maybe it's the Russians feeding them like the satellite reconnaissance and targeting intelligence. I don't know if if it's from the Russians or they've managed to infiltrate with their agents like just like they did you know, the Israeli state but um they did hit his house. They did target his house and his brother was in in his house and his brother is dead. They [snorts] are employing Israel's tactics of you know, taking out taking out the heads the leadership because they've also targeted Ben Gvir's house and Ben Gvir I

[03:37] don't know what is the latest but up until last night the reports was that he was seriously injured. Critically injured. So they're now employing Israel's tactics. They are. It's the same tactic. Yes. And and this has to this has to have the Israelis on their on their heel. You know, they I don't think that they expected any of this. No. I think that the that the it was the

[04:07] Israelis who convinced Trump that Iran was a house of cards. That the Israelis did that because they actually believe themselves. Well, they I mean they wanted to use the they only have a limited time left up until the midterm elections and everyone all the analysts saying even you that this is a last big opportunity to take out Iran because they're getting the feedback that the American public has had it this time. So time was running and they also have their fall I think Israel there's also

[04:37] fall elections in Israel. But um Yes. Trump for for that matter Trump came out yesterday. I mean you see him with the press. He's making all these like crazy crazy ass statements. They're asking him about the Tomahawks and he's like I don't know, maybe I saw them Tomahawks. I don't know. And then he was making these he was throwing um Steve Witkoff What's the name of his son-in-law? God, Kushner. Jared Kushner. Yes and he said under the bus saying, you know, they gave me the info and that's why I decided to you know, call call the war

[05:09] and it was based on info that and he he named them and he threw them under the bus. So I mean where does Jared Kushner come into this anyway? He doesn't hold an official position within the government. So you're saying out publicly that God, you're going by Jared Kushner's suggestions that Iran is going to attack us soon? That's what you're telling the American public? That's why you entered this war? And let me let me add something to the Russians made a statement today that

[05:39] made perfect sense. The Russians said that they will no longer engage in settlement talks with the Ukrainians that are that are headed by the United States because the United States can't be trusted. It was engaged supposedly in talks with Iran pretending to go through talks with Iran and then they attacked Iran. So the Russians said why should we trust the Americans to broker talks with Ukraine when they could just as soon turn around and attack us in the middle of the talks. And I think that's exactly right. Yeah,

[06:11] I mean I mean the two wars with Iran happened in the middle of the so-called discussions that America was having with Iran on on its nuclear program. So I mean they can't be trusted anymore and Trump did reach out behind the scenes twice in these ten days for a ceasefire with the Iranians and they said they played some games. >> we've been told, yeah. Well, Bibi didn't like it and he he was calling over at the White House to see if these reports were true, right? I mean what does this what does this show? Who's running the

[06:43] show? Who's who's the president of America? Or is the president of America president of America or or is he representing whose interests is he representing? >> Honestly honestly on foreign policy on foreign policy Benjamin Netanyahu has just as much authority as whoever happens to be president of the United States. We've conceded foreign policy to the Israelis and to Israeli interests. But John, it seems that they the Americans are inclined into asking for you know,

[07:15] getting into back channel talks for a ceasefire and they're seeing it's not working and it seems that Trump has called Putin and asks asked for Putin's help on this. Is this true? Have we heard anything? >> I I I haven't heard that but I wouldn't be surprised. So this was this was the reporting coming in from Thanassis Avgerinos. He's a very well respected very well connected our Greek reporter based in Moscow and this was his reporting late last night on our big

[07:46] Greek channels. That the report he has from the Kremlin is that Donald Trump reached out to Putin for him to intervene to hopefully broker a ceasefire with Iran because Iran isn't isn't isn't having it. The the his two attempts so far they they turned them down. So this is the report that's come out. >> [snorts] [sighs] >> Yeah, I believe that and and I'll tell you what, the the Russians have been giving the Iranians targeting information. Um that was leaked a few days ago

[08:18] and I remember reading it and and just saying to a friend, well of course they're giving the Iranians targeting information. They're allies. We're giving the Ukrainians targeting information. The the Russians gave the North Vietnamese targeting information. We gave the Afghan Mujahideen targeting information and Stinger missiles. This is what enemies do to one another. So what's the best way to to get that to stop? You just reach out directly to the Russians and say please stop. Help us negotiate some kind of a ceasefire. Oh,

[08:49] let's see if it's true. >> But but I'll I'll add one other thing, Susie. We here in the United States, we look like fools. We look like puppets of the Israelis and we look like fools for being duped into another yet another war of choice. The 27 US military facilities across the region have been struck even in Incirlik airbase in Turkey which is one of the key hubs for US air power for the whole Middle East for decades has been hit and

[09:21] rendered um unusable while several ports that the US uses in the Gulf have also been damaged. Even the the port that the US was building in Oman because they wanted to stop using the port in in Dubai because of exposure and stuff. Even that has been struck. So now the US seems to be relying heavily on the ports of in Europe and in India to ship equipment over. So what does I want your comment on this, please. Yes, see this is yet another one of those examples of that the United States

[09:53] just never thought would happen and so didn't prepare for. India is far from the war zone. It's far, and it's hard to get from India to the Persian Gulf. Uh but this is exactly what we should have expected. The Iranians told us in advance that this would quickly escalate into a regional war. It did almost immediately, and then the Iranians told us that they would close the Strait of Hormuz. They're in the process of of

[10:24] closing the Strait of Hormuz. This morning they attacked three ships, uh two oil tankers and one cargo ship. Like what What did we think was going to happen? They told us what was going to happen. Yeah. And we just pretended not to hear. So since you've touched upon that, the economic cost of the war to America is how much per day? I'm getting I'm I'm I'm reading reports that it could be 800 million dollars a day, and then I'm reading other reports that it could be up to 2 billion dollars a day. So do you

[10:54] have Yeah. >> a clearer idea? Yeah, Axios reported um 2 days ago, I think it was, that it was between 2 and 3 billion dollars a day, and it reminded me of a story not a story, it reminded me of of an of an incident where I was working I was working at the CIA during the uh Kuwait Iraq uh war, and it was right before we began the liberation of Kuwait. And I remember the president's

[11:26] morning briefer coming back to the office and saying that the president was shocked to speechless when they told him that we were spending 100 million dollars a day in the Gulf. Well, 100 million back then, yeah. >> 100 million Well, just with inflation, it's going to be close to 2 billion. >> Yes. And um there's there's I mean there's all all these repercussions, right? We're seeing um

[11:58] something extraordinary happening
