How Israel Turned Gaza’s Tunnels Against Hamas | John Spencer on the Tikvah Podcast

Hamas spent tons of money building a buttload of overlapping tunnels, some cheap and small, others so advanced that you could drive trucks though. They could have spent this money helping Palestinians. They then further screwed Palestinians by reminding Israel that they were a terroristic threat by attacking on Oct 7.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t46d8FcF2w

Why Afghanistan and Pakistan are fighting

A group in Pakistan with ties to the Taliban attacked Pakistan and want to give Pakistani territories to Afghanistan. Afghanistan doesn’t recognize the current border, which was drawn by the British and separates ethnic groups. Afghanistan’s other borders also separate groups, including Persians from Persia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0X2rqzKTgM

Congress Questions Strikes as Another General Steps Down

Multiple high level military men have stepped down as the Trump administration appears to murder suspected drug traffickers. The administration showed their intel justifying the strikes only to some Republican Congressmen rather than to members of both parties, so Congress as a whole can’t even analyze the justifications.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wUXGd7P-0g

Miller Loses It Over Pritzker’s Plan To Hold ICE Accountable

Stephen Miller threatens the arrest of governors or anyone else who gets in the way of ICE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j15__atsXrc

Trump Says Tariffs Are About National Security. Pentagon Officials Say They Need a Tariff Exemption.

“the “national security” argument clearly has been foundational to Trump’s trade policies. Higher tariffs will make America’s military more self-sufficient and capable against future threats; that’s the White House’s point of view.

One problem: that’s not how the people actually in charge of America’s national security see it.

“The Defense Department routinely acquires items and materials from foreign sources indispensable to meet defense needs that are not readily available or produced in sufficient quantities within the United States,” wrote John Tanaglia, director of pricing, contracting, and acquisitions for the Pentagon, in a memo dated August 25.

The memo instructs other officials at the Pentagon to provide “duty-free entry certificates” to military purchases that would otherwise be subject to tariffs. Doing so, the memo explains, will “maximize the Department’s budget to meet warfighter needs.”

First and foremost, that’s yet more proof that tariffs are raising costs for American purchasers of foreign goods. And it is true, of course, that Trump’s tariffs are straining budgets everywhere. Being able to ignore those costs must be nice—many, many businesses across the United States surely wish they had the power to simply wave away those costs as easily as the Pentagon apparently can.”

https://reason.com/2025/10/15/trump-says-tariffs-are-about-national-security-pentagon-officials-say-they-need-a-tariff-exemption/