WEBVTT - Operation Blooming Daffodils 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.080 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.160 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:23.639 Armstrong and get Kid and he Armstrong and Getty to 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.920 the media outlets and political left streaming endless wars. Stop. 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.519 This is not a rack. This is not endless. I 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:36.279 was there for both. Our generation knows better, and so 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.960 does this president. He called the last twenty years of 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:45.640 nation building wars dumb, and he's right. This is the opposite. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:51.800 This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission. Destroy the 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.680 missile threat, destroy the navy, no nukes. Boy, that is 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.960 something for the Republican Administration's Secretary of Defense or second 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.240 Vitoria of War to come out and say those wars 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.560 were dumb since they were launched, you know under Bush. 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:07.360 That's pretty powerful. 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.120 Right, And there is a question, Well, there's kind of 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.959 regime change in mind, but how much nobody's sure. But 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.800 to discuss this in other matters, it's always great to 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.840 talk to military analyst Mike Lyons, who joins us now. 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:21.759 Hello, Mike, how are you. 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:23.720 Hey, guys, good to be back. 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.920 Yeah, it was pretty interested in your tweet. Iran will 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:29.880 attempt to execute something we have really never seen before 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.160 when a war of attrition in the air. 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:33.280 Explain what you meant by that. 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.640 So we understand regular wars of attrition. They take place 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.880 on the ground against industrialized nations that just you know, 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.200 grind each other out. We're seeing it happen in Ukraine 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.800 right now in Russia, but we haven't seen it in 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.080 the air before. And it's all about air defense platforms 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.840 and air defense systems versus attack air capability. Because this 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.160 war right now is all in the air. It's all 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.760 you know. We've launched our missiles and our planes against 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.520 the Ranes, and all they have is missiles that come 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.120 back at us. And so from their perspective, and the 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.400 economics of theater missile defense are not in our favor 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:11.840 because of the cost it takes to defend versus the 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.040 cost to go on the attack. The Iran fires one 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.600 hundred thousand dollars ballistic missile at Israel or at one 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.720 of our allies, and we spend a million dollars in 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.760 multiple different ways to intercept that down and we're running 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.440 out of those interceptors, and so the math doesn't work. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.520 And so what Iran's going to try to do is 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.480 to make multiple different targets all around the theater. We're noticing, 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:38.480 for example, why are they hitting targets of their neighboring 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.720 countries in the Middle East. Well, it's because it's causing 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:47.200 the missile defense theater to spread out its defense capabilities. Okay, 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.440 so now now you're not You know, we stocked up 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.120 with the Gerald Ford on the Mediterranean side, but now 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.920 the Abraham Lincoln is now in that game, and then 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.359 using these other countries. Russell saw a mistake. The Katari's 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.280 down American F thirty five's there, probably by a mistake. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.119 They should have recognized that was a friendly fire situation, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.560 but they didn't. So they're new in the combat game. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:14.079 So again overall in as a result of this, the 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:17.200 Uranians are going to try to fire multiple different ballistic 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:21.080 missiles to a trip down the allies i'll call it 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:25.720 American and Israeli defense systems and forcing us to deplete 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.239 all our stocks before we've before they've gotten rid of 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:29.720 all of theirs. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.359 Clearly, the answer to that conundrum is to take out 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.440 their capacity to fire all those missiles. How optimistic are 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.279 you that we can do serious damage? 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.240 Right? That's the thing that the Secretary of Heads, I 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:41.880 said yesterdays when I was going back and forth with 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.240 my son about that this kind of you know, arrows 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.920 and archers, you know, going after the arrows, and then 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:49.880 they go after the archers. You won't get the arrows. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.240 I'm confident I think that that's why we use the 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.200 element of surprise to go after a lot of them 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.839 in the beginning. It reminds me of scud hunting back 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.840 in ninety one when we did that during desert storm 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:05.720 as we had to do the same thing similar But 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.400 like anything else, some will get through, and you know, 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.440 we can't go through what we did six months ago. 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.960 Six months ago the United States fired about one hundred 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.800 and fifty THAD those high altitude air defense missiles and 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.160 we can only manufacture about thirty of them a year, 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.560 and so we took five years of inventory out out 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.120 and use it just last June in that mission. And 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.960 we only you know, again we because of the complexity 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.000 of how their manufacturer rare worth minerals and specialized folks 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.240 that do that, you know, we just can't produce them. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:37.520 We're not. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.200 We just can't put another assembly line and produce it. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:44.640 So again, the economics don't work, and so so again 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:48.039 we've got to protect them and recognize that we're going 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.680 to have to do other things in order to take 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.159 out their ballistic missiles and really go hunt them down. 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.600 Just to back up a little bit, has there ever 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.400 in world history been anything like the decapitation operation that 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.320 happened over the weekend. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.240 I think sure. I mean, this is Israel m this 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:10.280 is how they operate. This is part of their deterrence strategy. Frankly, 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.080 then if you decide to go to war with Israel, 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.040 they respond keen x with anything that you might come 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:17.320 back at you. But the first thing they're going to 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.240 do is go after their leadership. Now, the United States 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.560 can't do that. There's an executive order signed by Ronald 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.479 Reagan going back forty years now that says the United 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.520 States won't assassinate heads of state. I think it's a 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.280 slippery slope for us to do that. It gives a 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:33.919 credence for other countries to try to do that to 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:35.719 our president. That's not to say they couldn't do it anyway. 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.520 Obviously they're not going to necessarily abide by the wars 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:40.360 of land warfare, but we won't do that. That was 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.880 one hundred percent Israel's mission. But we have seen that before, 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.240 but on this level probably not, probably not a country 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:52.080 with ninety million people, probably not. It's how and what 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:53.680 will be the result of that. But it's not just 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.599 that the leader they took out, it's the forty others 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.560 that they have. But the message might be also who 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.280 hasn't been taken out. We know Masad is clearly infiltrated. 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:04.160 A lot of things going on inside of Iron. We 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.880 know that that's the case, and so they're searching now 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.680 for the Delta Rodrigaz. They're searching for the person that 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.400 that that created that Venezuela situation of Okay, everyone's dead 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.360 except you. Do you want to play ball or not. Meanwhile, 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.480 we know exactly where you are. We can find you anytime, 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.960 so you could be the next contestant on you know, 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.719 you're the next leader, or you can decide to you know, 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.680 not cooperate. You could be you won't. I mean, in 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:26.840 this case, you won't be in the back of a 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.920 special Force a helicopter. You're going to see the front 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.040 side of the Tomahawk cruise missile. So that's how the 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:33.919 Israelis operate, and that's how they're going to do, and 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.000 that's how they view Iran as an exidential threat. 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:39.080 I was just going to ask you what you thought 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:43.640 about the obviously awesome intelligence that we in Israel have. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:50.440 What does that say about our capabilities and or the. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.679 The infiltration of the Iranian regime. 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:54.839 Yeah, I saw a report too that said the CIA 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.039 gave information we want to get in this game as well. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.679 But Israel has been doing this for you know, twenty years, 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.760 more than that likely, and this is how they operate. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.960 It's the same thing they did with the Pager exercise 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.359 when they you know, blew all the Hamas guys up. 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.800 I mean, this is how they operate, and they take 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.880 great risks doing it. I'm sure there's been many Israeli 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.480 citizens that have unfortunately given their lives, have been burned, 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:22.200 and but this is all for the survival of that state. 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.440 That's how they operate. In theory, a country of ninety 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.679 million should have no problem with a country of about 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:31.200 nine million. But in this case, you know, Israel continues 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.880 to dominate. It's just not just the military the hardware 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.680 side of it. It's just the the intel and the intellect. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:36.640 Side of it. 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:40.440 Although again Iranians are smart people. They're persons, they're not Arabs. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:41.760 I think. I think in some way that's why they're 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.760 attacking those Arabs states as well. They look down their 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:45.840 nos that Arabs that they don't think they're the same. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.400 They're Persians, So I think that's that's also part of 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:50.320 their calculus. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:52.880 It's interesting you said that. I remember, Joan, I went 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.880 out to eat with some at a Persian restaurant with 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.440 some they'd like to call themselves the Persian these dudes. 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.200 It's truly nice guys we were friends with. But I 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.800 remember this them saying, man, those Arabs are crazy. We 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.160 got into the conversation about the Middle East. Yeah, they 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.360 had they had a certain view of all Arabs that 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:10.720 I had never heard before. 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.880 Yeah. I mean Persia has made significant contributions to civilization, 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.280 go back to the seven seven hundreds, eight hundreds, and 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.280 it's you know, part of the Ottoman Empire. It's it's 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.520 had contributions. It's a smart civilization, which is why they 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:25.800 can create nuclear weapons. I mean they have that intellectual 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.800 capital and that you know that there's a reason why 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:30.480 some of these other countries can't get there from here, 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:35.000 So they have that intellectual capability and the manufacturing and 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.280 the industrial base, and they do all those things. And 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.719 that's that's why they're they're in the position they're in. 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.480 They're just led by ruthless people that want to see 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.160 the end of Israel and the state sponsor of terrorism. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.000 So Trump said a little bit ago. 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.199 I don't have the exact verbiage, but it was something 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:54.559 like the big wave or the major wave or whatever 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:55.760 is yet to come. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:56.720 Do you think that's true? 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.400 You know, if we're to show the other day with somebody, 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.240 it's like we can no longer be shocked about what 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.440 Donald Trump says, right in terms of He's always going 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.040 to overseell something too as well. Right, so you know, 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.000 we we could have that might be true, but I'll 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:14.800 tell you right now, I'm sure the military. We saw 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.199 this this thing this morning where the military came out 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.040 and basically defined a military objective that can be accomplished, 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.560 that can be eventually used to say this was our 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.640 endgame as well. So regime change is not something the 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.120 military can do. And Hesth said that today. It was interesting. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.680 So yeah, well it likely come. Sure, the next couple 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.480 of attacks could take place in the next few days, and 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:36.959 Trump will say yeah, that's it. He'll point it and 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:38.960 say that's that's what that was. Now do I like 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.920 my president doing that? No, I'd rather have him, you know, 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.600 undersell somethings than over deliver on the other side. But 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:46.679 we've just come to expect this is this is who 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.400 Donald Trump is. It does maybe put more pressure on 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.079 on the war fires at some level, but he doesn't 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.679 he doesn't know any other way. He's always going to 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:55.480 try to oversell it. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:55.719 Right. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.080 So we're talking to military analyst Mike Lines. Mike, if 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.520 China were take this moment to move on Taiwan, how 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.920 bad would that be in terms of our ability to 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:06.800 do anything about it. 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:09.960 So again, no one's talking about this, but the straight 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.680 of remotes once it gets blocked. If it is being blocked. Now, 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.480 there's reports this morning China gets fifteen percent of its 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:19.480 oil from there. So the President's cut off Venezuela as 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.360 an emergency access of oil for China, and now fifteen 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.800 percent of it gets blocked off coming from the Middle East. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.479 China will now scramble when it comes to having reserves 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:33.800 in order to go to war. China is building underground tanks. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.640 They recognize they need billions of oil in the ground 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.280 to make sure that they can go to war with 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.640 tai one off. That's what they want to do. But 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:43.559 right now this is going to put that actually more 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:45.720 of it risk, because if they can't get the oil 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.120 or they try to buy it from Russia, which then 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.400 doesn't help that cause because Russia now has more money 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.280 to create more weapons to go after the Ukraine. So 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.640 this is a vicious circle that takes place. Again no 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.240 one's talking about when it comes to the economics of 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:04.920 the energy trade. I think anyway, no matter what, we'll 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.520 have a hard time. You know two things. First of all, 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.480 the second that we're no longer reliant on Taiwan for 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.000 silicon chips, and we've created the founderies that we're building 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:14.880 right now in Texas. I just got back there and 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.760 talk to some folks doing that. The second we can 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.400 do that, then Taiwan becomes the Middle East of the 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.480 nineteen nine. We're no longer relying on it for oil, 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.360 so we'll let China have it. I still have I 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.439 know we have strategic ambiguity about it, and AOC stumbled 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.719 upon didn't know how to answer it, because I think 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:33.240 deep down this president won't decide to attack China, potentially 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.560 lose a West coast city just over Taiwan. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.760 Well, in AOC's defense, she's an idiot. Mike waians a 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:44.080 military analyst. Mike, I'm sure we'll talk again. Thank you 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.920 so much for the thoughts and the expert seas and 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:47.560 we'll talk soon. 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:49.559 Thany, guys, great, thanks for having me. 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.600 And then we mentioned this headline earlier this morning from 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:56.160 the New York Times. If China invades Taiwan and cuts 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.400 off its chip exports, the tech industry in the United 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.280 States economy would be crippled. Yeah, so you got the 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.280 oil angle, you got the chips angle. As Mike pointed out, 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:07.360 interesting times. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.840 We have released this is really distasteful. I'd like to 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:12.320 apologize in advance. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.400 I know where you're going here. 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Anyway, 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:30.800 more on the way stay here. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.960 After launching a massive military strike against Iran, Trump announced 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.720 hours ago that they officially killed the Supreme Leader Ayatoly 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.840 Kameni and replaced him with Oh my god, the guy 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.040 from Venezuela. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:54.240 What's an interesting joke. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah. 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:58.040 The Venezuela situation, which is obviously not in the headline, 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:02.280 is kind of interesting because the the kleptocrat fake communists 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.559 are still in charge there, and it's not good. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:08.480 I mean, Maduro's gone. He was a bastard. 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.800 But other than a little access to oil, conceivably, I'm 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:12.839 not sure what we got. 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.480 France just announced they're going to increase their number of 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.680 nuclear warheads from the current level of below three hundred, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.840 first time they've increased the size of their nuclear arsenal 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.040 since nineteen ninety two. And throw this in just as 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.880 kind of a hole, the whole world is just getting 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.760 a little hotter in a little more jumpy, a little 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.320 more ready to go. Oh boint don't like it. 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.440 I have no control over it, but I don't like it. 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:46.760 Yipes coming up a really interesting back and forth about 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:51.880 the constitutionality of the attack on Iran, and I don't 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:54.920 want to give too much away, but I think everybody's 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:59.240 right in this argument, and they disagree with each other, 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.120 so we'll talk about that. Plus, it just struck me 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.680 last night as I was taking in all sorts of 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.800 news that at that point we'd lost three of our 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.880 service people it's now up to four. And how we 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.520 value life in the West in the United States and 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:24.280 are very we're very careful about not spending people's lives cheaply. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.880 We cherish life in short, unless you're on the left, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:32.600 and it's a fetus anyway. But at the next report 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.840 was that there were protests at the American consulate in 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.000 oh one of your big Pakistani cities. 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:41.320 I can't remember which one. 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:46.119 Pakistan heights and nine people died at the protest. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:50.480 Wow. I mean there's a contrast for you, no kidding. 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.440 I mean, they just spend lives like crazy in the 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.240 Muslim world because they believe, you know, you go to 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.600 Allah's side and have your virgins and your martyr and 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.720 the rest of But yeah, they do not value your 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:02.280 life at all. 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.800 So there's Operation Roaring Lion and Operation Epic Fury. What's 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:12.760 the Roaring Lion part. I'm not clear on that myself. Yeah, anyway, 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:14.480 both are going on. Most of it seems to be 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.120 Epic Fury. I'm not exactly sure why you have to 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.080 have names like this for this sort of thing, as 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.280 I've been saying, this is for us, this is operation 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:25.960 mediocre punditry that we've got going a weekly. You can't 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:26.760 you can't. 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:31.400 Name it mediocre blooming DAFA or I'm sorry, Operation blooming Daffodils, 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.760 or anything true to have a hard ass name. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.680 It's just everybody knows that for sure. The fact that 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:40.640 Pete Heggsath didn't rule out boots on the ground and 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.160 Trump is not ruling it out, And I understand the 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.000 whole not ruling things out, but I feel like they're 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.560 laying the groundwork, maybe that they maybe actually think we 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.440 might have to put boots on the ground to accomplish 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.600 what we want to accomplish. So we got to make 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.880 sure we get out there on that. Boy, that would 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.120 be a big political story. 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.320 I would sure love to see their decision tree right now. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.400 If this happens, then we will do this. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:04.840 That and the other. 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.920 What would happen though, which branch of the tree includes that? 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.520 Yeah? What would have to happen that we would actually 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:16.159 put soldiers on the ground. Now, the history of the 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.400 world is I don't think there's ever been a regime 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:22.280 change forced through the air. But we don't have to 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.520 force regime change. That's not mandatory. We took out the 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.480 Ayatola and everybody underneath him. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.840 As we discussed earlier, just declawing them for a very 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.439 long time would be a win. Yeah, we got a 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:36.439 big win, but it's a win. We can pound them 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:37.240 for quite a while. 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:41.119 Wait, that's stuff what Mike Lions was talking about though about. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.720 You know how much of our super expensive high tech 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.080 gear has been expended already and at some point we 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:50.800 could run out of it. Now I understand why they 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.560 attacked all those countries. They're just trying to wipe out 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:57.320 the capability of Israel in the United States to defend 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:58.800 against all these rockets and missiles. 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.119 Right, that's not a bad plan. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.320 No, which is why we've got to pound the be 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.120 Jesus out of them. Let's argue about the constitution next. 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.480 It'll be fun. Yeah, lotsaw on the way. If you 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:11.359 missed the sec made the. 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:18.600 Podcast Armstrong and Getty. The celebration is striking. 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:23.080 We got here just moments after initial reports initial rumors 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.440 of the death of iotl A. Kamm and A had 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:30.639 just started to trickle from Iran to this diaspora community, 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.800 and people were jumping in excitement, hugging each other, crying, 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.320 saying that basically they've been waiting forty seven years for 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:42.040 this very date. Is the reason so many of them 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:43.640 have come out here today. 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:46.679 Celebrating, partying like crazy. Have you seen the video of 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:51.240 all the Iranians doing the Trump dance after the news broke. 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.879 They're dancing to YMCA doing the Trump dance, American flags, 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:59.119 Iranian flags, Israeli flags all together. Now, I am all 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:03.040 for the discussion about whether or not, you know, constitutionality, Congress, 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.040 all that sort of stuff. I'm troubled by it. But 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.439 you can't do the long face, sad voice like they 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.159 did all week on an MSNBC while you're having the conversation. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.199 And Trump, of course, does not have the right to 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.760 do this. When you got all these young Iranians who 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:22.520 are partying like crazy because the country that they love 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:27.040 has been freed, hopefully from this evil theocracy. And I'm 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:29.879 sure they all know people who've been tortured or killed 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:34.359 or whatever by their own government. So MSNBC, geez, Rachel 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.840 maddowen all your democratic guesses, you gotta stop with the 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:41.120 long faces. You're out of touch, You're on the wrong 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:42.080 side of history on. 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:45.560 This, which is why nobody watches them. They're Idio's true idiots. 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:49.679 Speaking of which, and the American left, this is so 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:54.560 amazing from Nelly Bowles. Zorn Mumdani, the new mayor of 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.880 New York and his team are ousting military contractors from 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:02.840 the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Ay quote a council member celebrating 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.560 the decision, this public asset should not be leasing space 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:09.720 to companies producing drones that are being transformed into weapons 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.320 of war. It's part of the movement to quote demilitarized 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:14.680 Brooklyn Navy Yard. 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.560 And of course now he asks, what the hell do 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:18.880 they think? 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:22.840 The word navy means a shade of blue and some 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:23.960 places authority. 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:29.000 That is pretty funny. I missed that demilitarizing the Navy yard. 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:32.160 There you go, yeah, yeah, but genuinely is the idea 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.399