Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2466 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin
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Joe Rogan Experience #2466 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin

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Okay, so when we scheduled this, there was nothing to happen.
I hope it was so peaceful.
Every time we're here, something crazy is going on, man.
Yeah, maybe we manifest it.
To be honest, it did, 2026 did start with a bang.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, a lot of things, you know, it's just nothing seems stable everywhere.
Everywhere in the world seems fucked right now.
Like, this is the, like, in all of my years, this seems the most unstable
globally.
Like, I never worried that the UK was going to be, like, complete chaos, arresting
12,000 people for social media posts and abandoning trial by jury, all that
shit.
I never thought the Ukraine-Russia war would go on this long.
Never thought.
Never thought they would just continue bombing Gaza.
And then what's happening now?
And then what's happening now?
They just sort of stop.
And now they're talking about putting a resort there.
Like, you hear that, like, you hear that, and you go, are you fucking serious?
Right.
Tim Dillon has a, I won't give the bit away.
He has a fucking phenomenal bit about staying in that resort.
Yeah, and you boys have been busy as well, Joe.
Yeah, and I was going to get to that.
The embarrassing part.
In the middle of Ramadan, you take out the leader of a Muslim country.
And, uh...
They're hungry already, and you're fucking with that.
Well, no.
They're really, yeah.
They can't even drink water.
And then, you know, I was listening to Tim Dillon's podcast today.
He's got a great podcast with Ryan Grimm and one other gentleman.
But one of the things that they brought up was that some of these drone attacks,
it doesn't even seem like they're from Iran.
Some of these drone attacks on Gulf states, like, that one of them, um...
I don't want to speak out of tune, out of turn, because I'm not exactly sure
which ones they're talking about.
They're talking about one of them on, um...
Either it's an oil refinery.
I think it is an oil refinery.
That it doesn't seem like it came from Iran.
Where did it come from?
That's a good question.
One of their proxies?
That's a good question.
The fear is a false flag.
That's the fear.
Like, if you really wanted to get really scared of what we were dragged into,
you're dragged into an ally that's not telling you the truth and is also doing
some other stuff.
Well...
Not even a saying that that's the case, but a lot of people are assuming that
that's what it is.
But that's what happens when you have an absence of information.
Right.
And so the moment you have an absence of information, there's a vacuum.
And nature abhors a vacuum.
You need to have that vacuum filled.
So that's where conspiracies naturally flourish.
A hundred percent.
Because if people don't have information, then they're going to basically theorize.
Right.
And part of people theorizing is conspiracies are going to start flourishing.
Well, I think they were basing it on where the drone came from.
Like, let's see if we can find some information on that, Jamie.
I will try.
I don't know.
It was Jeremy Scahill was the other...
That's right.
...reporter on the video.
I just find it amazing now how many people have, like, a hard take on, like,
what's going...
I'm like, what the...
We don't know a fucking thing about what's going...
Like, the coin is in the air, right?
Right.
And we do not know how it's going to...
But everyone's got to take.
Of course.
Everyone knows.
Yeah, of course.
Like, we do not fucking...
I don't think anyone knows.
Like, I understand if you work at the White House or if you work in Russian
propaganda or you work in Chinese propaganda, like...
Or if you work in Iranian, like, you've got to get your point of view across to
try and persuade people.
Right.
But if you're actually trying to work out what's genuinely happening, I don't
think anyone knows how...
This is a gamble of gigantic proportions.
Right.
And nobody knows how it's going to end.
It's like...
It's just so unpredictable.
And I can tell you a great story that is, like, positive for the West, let's
say, or for America.
I can tell you a terrible story.
And they both sound very convincing.
And no one knows which one of them is true.
Yeah, that's a very good point.
This is the hot take culture, right?
Right.
Everyone has a take.
And they want that take to be that expert take.
So, specific drone attack incidents that call potential false flags.
Saudi Arabia...
Saudi Aramco, rather, oil facility attack.
So, Iranian officials deny striking the Saudi Aramco processing facility and
instead suggest
Israel may have carried out that attack as a false flag to inflame Gulf opinion
and pull Saudi Arabia more directly into the war with Iran.
So, Ryan Grimm explicitly says he thinks Iran's claims that Israel hit the Aramco
facility need to be taken seriously and that it's very possible Israel did it.
And this was the other one, the drone strike on the British base in Cyprus.
That was from Lebanon, right?
Yeah.
Is that what they're saying?
Yeah.
It may have come from the direction of Lebanon.
He places this in the same context of Iran, claiming Israel carried out certain
attacks in neighboring states as false flags to blame in Iran and drag those
countries into the war.
Those countries, this doesn't make any logical sense to me because those
countries are already in the war.
I mean, Saudi Arabia and UAE have been attacked by Iran because they were on
the phone to Trump basically asking him to do this.
Here's a, this is another weird one, the Tucker Carlson one.
You saw that, right?
No.
So, Tucker Carlson said that.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
The alleged Mossad, yeah, yeah.
That they'd have been arrested.
Right.
That members of Mossad have been arrested in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
So, uh.
But both Qatar and Saudi Arabia have said it's not true.
Yeah.
They've officially denied such arrests.
Their own Saudi sources also denied it, though they note details don't prove it
didn't happen.
And that states would almost certainly hide such arrests if real.
Huh.
Well, the thing, Joe, is that these countries, so Saudi Arabia and UAE,
Qatar less so, they want this to happen because they also hate Iran or the
Iranian regime.
Right.
So, there is no need for Israel, even if you, you know, if people are tempted
to believe,
there's no need for Israel to do this because these countries are already in it.
Right.
And that, one of the reasons that Iran has attacked things in Saudi Arabia and
in the UAE is they know that.
Right.
Right.
So, the Gulf countries are on board with this.
Right.
So, what would be, let's assume that the false flag, that it's in play, who
would, why?
Why would Israel, how would they benefit from doing that?
That's what I'm saying.
There is no rationale that I can think of.
The people that think the false flag is real, like, why do they think that?
Like, what do they think that Israel would benefit from it?
Is there a scenario where you could imagine it would inflame things and further
support other countries contributing to the, I mean, there's a lot of money
that's being spent on this war, right?
Right.
Like, this is insane amount of money just for munitions, just for missiles.
Yeah, yeah.
And then rebuilding Iran, if we get to that, right?
Maybe another resort.
Yeah.
So, but I just don't see the rationale because the Gulf countries are already
targets for Iran.
Right.
There's nothing to inflame.
Like, the situation is already pretty fucking inflamed, right?
And it's partly inflamed because, as I say, actually, the Gulf states and
Israel are pretty aligned on this particular thing.
They're all a threat from the Iranian regime.
So, we had Eamon Dean and Richard Minnett on our show the other day.
One of them is an Al-Qaeda MI6 double agent.
Another one is a really reputable investigative journalist, Richard.
Al-Qaeda MI6 double agent?
Yeah.
What balls.
And he has a great podcast now, as well, called Conflicted.
What a great name for a podcast for a guy who's a double agent.
Yeah, yeah.
What balls that guy must have.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Really cool guy.
But anyway, I mean, he was explaining that Saudi Arabia has a population that
is way bigger than what they can sustain in terms of the water.
But they live in the fucking desert.
So, they have these desalination plants, which are extremely vulnerable.
And Saudi Arabia, UAE, these other countries, they felt at huge risk from
Iranian attacks for a long time.
So, none of them like the Iranian regime that's spreading terrorism through its
proxies.
So, in actual fact, dragging them into the war, kind of like, there's no sense
for that.
I think there's a lot of people just, they go to reaction now whenever anything
happens is that it was Israel's fault.
You know, like Venezuela, fuck all to do with Israel.
But when it happened, everyone's like, oh, it's Israel.
I think some people just go to that now as the automatic response, which comes
back to what I was saying earlier about the hot take culture.
Something happened three minutes ago, and now everyone's got a fucking take on
it.
You don't know anything.
Right.
None of us know anything.
None of us know how this is going to go, because this right now is a highly
unpredictable situation.
I don't think the White House knows how this is going to go.
No, it's terrifying.
It's terrifying, and it's exactly the opposite of what we were told leading
into this administration, that it's going to be America first.
Right.
And no more unnecessary foreign wars.
There's the other thing that, do you remember Desert Storm?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Desert Storm, quick and easy, baby.
Woo, we went in, kicked some ass, took some names.
That's a wrap.
Pulled out.
There was only one base that got hit, so the amount of deaths by American
citizens was fairly minimal.
I think that's what got people so confident into entering Iran after 9-11, or
excuse me, Iraq after 9-11, to go back.
Like, we already fucked them up once.
We're going to go back, and this is going to be easy.
Well, it wasn't easy the second time, and it was drawn out, and it didn't make
any sense.
But people wanted some form of revenge, something, for 9-11, and so somehow or
another, they justified a war with a country that had zero to do with it.
Like, it didn't even make sense.
That one took for, and then we also invaded Afghanistan at the same time.
Like, what did we do?
What the fuck?
So, in the fog of this idea of American exceptionalism, we're just going to go
in and fix it.
We did it before.
There's no one even close to us.
Well, look how that turned out.
Yeah, well, this is completely true.
And it's this idea that it's so easy to take one regime, remove it, and then
just put another one in its place, like it's a Lego block.
And then all of a sudden, you're going to magically fix a country.
It's a fantasy.
Like, if you take Iran, the IRGC, which is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard,
numbers around 200,000 trained soldiers.
And not only are they trained soldiers, they're fanatical.
They're fanatics.
And then you have the secret police, and then you have the regular police, and
then you have the people employed in the government, and then their families,
and so on and so forth.
And then there's supporters within the country.
And then you've got the various factions within Iran, like the Kurds, who want
independence.
So the moment the leadership is weakened, they're going to use it as an
opportunity to launch their own revolution to try and break away from the rest
of Iran.
So you have all of these particular parts, these factions, and then you think
if you take out the top, the guy at the top who's holding it all together by
force, I'm not saying I agree with him or what he does.
You have the very real risk that the entire country is going to disintegrate,
as what happened in Iran.
In Iraq, sorry.
And also Libya.
Yeah.
That is a big risk.
The idea that you could just take the guy out, and that's a wrap.
I mean, it doesn't seem like it's 