Brave The New World

Matthew Carano, CJ Killmer
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Brave The New World is a weekly show that analyzes current events through a liberty-first lens, connecting today's news to historical patterns so you can recognize manipulation in real-time. Hosted by Matt Carano and CJ Killmer (The Dangerous History Podcast), each episode breaks down 2-3 stories using a consistent framework: What's the narrative? What's the reality? Who benefits? Where have we seen this before? And what can you actually do about it? No partisan hackery. No doom-scrolling. Just follow the money, recognize the pattern, and brave the new world.

  1. Jun 17

    Is Trump's Iran Peace Deal Real This Time?

    Is Trump's Iran Peace Deal Real This Time?Why is Trump Allowed To End The War Now?Trump says he never wanted regime change in Iran. He said the opposite, repeatedly, on day one of the war. Matt and CJ start with the gaslighting and end up somewhere bigger: if Trump only attacked Iran because he was captured, why can he suddenly defy Netanyahu and the whole Israel-first machine without fear? Matt floats a theory about who actually holds the leash, CJ tests it against a couple centuries of how elites really operate, and together they walk through what Trump may have been promised, the three things that will prove whether this peace is genuine, and the outcome nobody in Washington wants to admit. Iran is stronger now. The US is weaker. Every Republican running in the midterms is going to have to explain how that happened. Plus the scapegoat question, the aid hidden inside the Pentagon's budget, and why a country protected by two oceans keeps going looking for fights it doesn't need. https://x.com/matthewcarano https://x.com/KillmerCj https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSuSWVH4XXhPkDgQSpzOTog

    1h 12m

  2. Jun 3

    Trump Called Netanyahu "Crazy." Israel Bombed Lebanon Anyway.

    Matt Carano and CJ Killmer bring you the latest in news and politics. This week, Trump's own officials leaked a call to Axios where he called Netanyahu "crazy" and "ungrateful." Hours later, Israel ran its worst bombing campaign in southern Lebanon in weeks. The feud made headlines. The policy didn't move an inch. Matt and CJ Killmer break down why the blowup was theater, why the Iran war is the most unpopular American war in modern history yet nobody's in the streets, and what the $32 million it took to unseat Thomas Massie actually tells you about who runs US foreign policy. Plus: the case for capture, the Vietnam-era stat-juking playing out again, and the escalation that closed Kuwait's main airport. CJ also previews the new episode of the Dangerous History Podcast — the Peloponnesian War, the Sicilian Expedition, and why a 2,400-year-old "it'll be easy" war keeps repeating. Chapters: 00:00 CJ's new Dangerous History episodes 08:00 Warhawks vs. skeptics — Alcibiades, Nicias, and the "easy war" 28:00 Juking the stats: Vietnam, McNamara, and what "winning" hides 32:00 Two-thirds against the war, so where's the movement? 37:00 $150 oil and why Democrats won't pull the plug 49:00 The "performative" Trump-Netanyahu call 50:00 Lebanon: the real crux of the ceasefire 1:01:00 Compromat, Kushner, and the case for capture 1:09:00 What the Massie defeat actually proves 1:15:00 Tankers, Kuwait, and where we stand New episodes weekly. Aggressive toward power, welcoming toward the curious. On Twitter: https://x.com/matthewcarano https://x.com/KillmerCj YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BraveTheNewWrld

    1h 18m

  3. May 29

    The Mad Dream of Conquest: From Iran to Oman, an Empire That Can't Stop.

    The media keeps insisting an Iran deal is imminent. Read the terms and it's obvious no one in Tehran would sign — not after being surprise-attacked twice mid-negotiation, including the killing of their own leader. Matt and CJ start there and end up somewhere bigger: what a declining empire does when it stops believing in limits. From Trump threatening to "blow up" Oman over the Strait of Hormuz, to Beirut bombed over the weekend, to boats destroyed off South America with Cuba teed up next — this is a foreign policy with no brakes. CJ brings the history: Eisenhower ending the Korean War in under a year because he understood limits, and Thucydides watching Athens chase the mad dream of conquest. Then a full breakdown of the Libertarian Party's disaster convention, the LPNH purge, and where the liberty movement should actually be fighting. In this one: Why Iran negotiates from strength — and why no concessions means no signatureThe economic bill coming due: gas, inflation, fertilizer shortages, famineAn empire that can't stop: Oman, Lebanon, Cuba, the neglected hemisphereEisenhower, Thucydides, and leaders who once understood limitsThe LP convention meltdown, the 15–2 disaffiliation of LPNH, and the Massie question Brave The New World with Matt Carano and CJ Killmer. New episodes weekly. https://x.com/matthewcarano https://x.com/KillmerCj

    1h 27m

  4. May 21

    Is $32 Million To Take Out Massie An Act Of War?

    The Israel lobby just spent $32 million to remove Thomas Massie from Congress. AIPAC bragged about it on X within hours. A sitting Defense Secretary flew to Kentucky to campaign against him — federal law be damned. And here's the kicker: the three most expensive House primaries in US history were all decided by the same foreign lobby, all against members who criticized Israel. Matt and CJ work through the central question: at what point does this stop being lobbying and start being an act of war? Plus: the generational collapse in support for Israel (75% to 40% among under-30 Republicans), the IHRA laws now embedded in 38 states, Mark Levin's "Nazis and jihadis" rant, the Epstein angle, the Charlie Kirk timing, the "political dark matter" framework for understanding Trump's 180s — and why Americans killing COVID tyranny by refusing to comply is the template for what comes next.

    1h 11m

  5. May 15

    The Most Orwellian War in Modern History | CJ Killmer Returns

    CJ Killmer of the Dangerous History Podcast is back after a brutal few months, and we walk through where the United States actually stands two and a half months into the war with Iran. The blockade is theater. Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. Every justification the administration has given has shifted, and every objective they set is unreachable. Trump is in Beijing this week asking Xi for help on a war he says he doesn't need help with. CJ takes us back to 1948 and walks the full history of the Israel lobby's grip on American foreign policy. Truman's reelection calculation. Eisenhower at Suez. Kennedy on Israeli nukes. Reagan's one and only pushback. Carter's Camp David walkback. Why Netanyahu's time preference is shorter than Trump's term. We get into the Massie primary, the Tucker apology, the Charlie Kirk void, the campaign promises Trump has run against, and why the midterms are going to cream Republicans. Subscribe for new episodes weekly.

    1h 19m

  6. May 12

    The US-Iran Deal Trump Knows He Has to Take

    Iran sent its response to the United States this weekend. Trump posted "TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE" on Truth Social. He knows what the deal is going to look like. So does anyone willing to look at the receipts. The Strait of Hormuz belongs to Iran. The blockade is theater. The polling at home is the worst any wartime president has ever seen. Gas is climbing toward five dollars and the midterms are six months away. This episode walks through what's actually on the table, what's actually happening at the Strait, and why Lebanon is the piece this whole thing turns on. Israel went to war to topple Iran. Israel couldn't. So Netanyahu pivoted to taking land — Gaza, the West Bank, southern Lebanon. The trade Trump is negotiating right now is whether the United States keeps providing the cover. Plus the four pressure points crushing Trump's clock at home, the damage to American credibility abroad, and what to watch in the next two weeks. Chapters0:00 — Trump Knows2:00 — What's Actually on the Table9:00 — The Strait, the Blockade, and the Geography Problem17:00 — Lebanon Is the Real Trade27:00 — Why Trump's Clock Is Running Out37:00 — The View From Outside45:00 — What Comes Next, and the CloseWhat this episode coversThe 14-point US Memorandum of Understanding and Iran's counterproposalWhy the US naval blockade of Iranian ports is theaterThe Lebanon-as-carrot trade between Trump and NetanyahuThe third round of direct Israel-Lebanon talks at the State Department this Wednesday and ThursdayThe Trump-Xi summit in Beijing the same daysThe Massie primary in KentuckyThe five signals to watch over the next two weeks

    42 min

  7. May 5

    Foreign Lobbyists Have Built a Legal System to Bypass the First Amendment

    Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has flown to Jerusalem multiple times to sign Florida laws on foreign soil. He's not the only one. Thirty-eight US states have adopted the IHRA framework — a definition of antisemitism whose own author, Kenneth Stern, has been telling Congress for years is being weaponized to silence political speech about a foreign government. This episode walks through what's actually been built. The state laws. The federal Title VI enforcement wave. The lobbying network — Joseph Sabag, Eugene Kontorovich, Richard Goldberg, the Brandeis Center, the Combat Antisemitism Movement, ALEC. The federal court rulings calling it viewpoint discrimination and a smokescreen for ideologically-motivated assault. The Americans already hurt — Mahmoud Khalil, who missed the birth of his first child during 104 days in a Louisiana detention facility for activities the State Department's own memo described as "otherwise lawful." Harvard, hit with a $2.2 billion funding freeze before a federal judge struck it down. Then the foreign comparison. The United Kingdom: thirty arrests per day for online speech. Germany: five years in prison proposed for a phrase. France: criminal prosecutions for calling consumer boycotts. The destination is named, and the only thing standing between the apparatus already built here and the cases unfolding there is the First Amendment — which the architects know they cannot beat in a fair fight. If free speech falls, no other right is safe. This is a documentation of what has been built, who built it, who it serves, and what it has already cost. CHAPTERS: 00:00 — DeSantis in Jerusalem 05:00 — What Free Speech Actually Is 14:00 — The IHRA Tool 22:00 — Florida Step by Step 33:00 — Who Built It 46:00 — Are These Laws Doing Damage? 51:00 — Where This Leads

    57 min

  8. Apr 24

    The SPLC Funded the Klan. Then Tripled Its Revenue.

    The Southern Poverty Law Center was just indicted by a federal grand jury for fraud, money laundering, and paying the people it told its donors it was fighting. A Klan-affiliated informant got over a million dollars. The Unite the Right coordinator got $270,000. The money moved through shell companies with names like "Fox Photography" and "Rare Books Warehouse." And in the fiscal year after Charlottesville — the rally their paid informant helped coordinate — SPLC donations jumped from $50 million to $132 million. But the SPLC is not the story. The SPLC is the clearest possible view of a much bigger machine. In this episode, Matt Carano walks through three cases of the same structural model operating at three different scales: — The SPLC and the manufactured domestic extremism it fundraises off of — The National Endowment for Democracy, USAID, and the US regime change apparatus that replaced what the CIA used to do covertly — with Ukraine 2013–14 as the worked example — Benjamin Netanyahu's decade-long strategy of propping up Hamas to prevent a Palestinian state, in his own words One machine. Three scales. The threat is the product.

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Brave The New World is a weekly show that analyzes current events through a liberty-first lens, connecting today's news to historical patterns so you can recognize manipulation in real-time. Hosted by Matt Carano and CJ Killmer (The Dangerous History Podcast), each episode breaks down 2-3 stories using a consistent framework: What's the narrative? What's the reality? Who benefits? Where have we seen this before? And what can you actually do about it? No partisan hackery. No doom-scrolling. Just follow the money, recognize the pattern, and brave the new world.

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