3/30/26: Iran Blows Up US Aircraft, Trump Floats Ground Invasion

23:29And so for them, they're like, look, you keep threatening this stuff. You're actually kind of already doing it. And whether it's you or Israel, we're taking the damage no matter what. So we have to inflict the damage in the only way that we know possible. Yeah. And it increasingly seems, too, that as the initial, I guess, hopium that, OK, we'll just take out the ayatollah and some military assets and the regime will fall and the people will arrive, blah, blah, blah. whatever delusion was sold to Trump, when that fell apart, you increasingly have civilian infrastructure, which is being targeted again and again by the Americans and the Israelis.

24:04There's thousands of civilian sites that have been hit at this point. Hospitals in particular have been targeted. What does that remind you of? And this is the way, you know, this is the way Israel operates. And now we are operating together with Israel. And obviously we, you know, know, backed them fully throughout the Gaza genocide. Once the initial military objective failed and the attacks there failed to achieve the strategic objective, then the idea becomes the Dahiya doctrine where it's like, OK, well, let's just make it brutal as possible for civilians, you know, turn the power off and attack their schools and attack their homes and attack the hospitals, et cetera, and hope maybe that causes them to turn on the war and put pressure on the regime.

24:44We seem to be very much in that phase of the war. There was a recent report by BBC Verify, New York Times then backed it up, about one of the early, however, strikes within Iran. We talked, of course, about the Manab Girls School, where a Tomahawk missile decimated that school, killed 168 young girls and over a dozen teachers as well. There was another missile that turns out to be like this new high-tech precision missile that hit a sports complex and an adjacent elementary school also in the early days of the war. That has also been to have, was confirmed by BBC Verify to have come from us. Let's go ahead and take a listen to a little bit of their reporting.

25:27There were at least two strikes on Lamed, a town in the south of Iran. One was on a residential street, which is where we can see the missile. Another strike hit a community sports hall where state media report children were playing volleyball. Its intended target may have been an Iranian military base next door, but it appears undamaged in satellite imagery. According to multiple Iranian state media outlets, four children were among those killed that day, including 12-year-old Elham Zairey, an avid volleyball player. The youngest victim was reportedly two years old. Footage we've verified of the aftermath of the sports war strike shows the entire side of the building blackened.

26:02Damage can also be seen on the roof, with blast fragments in the surrounding area. According to experts, the weapon most likely used on the residential street was a U.S. precision strike missile. It's also known as a prism. It can reach targets of up to 500 kilometers away. This war marks what's believed to be the first time this weapon has been used by the U.S. military. That's according to the Department of Defense. We asked the U.S. why it used a prism in a civilian area, but they declined to comment. America's most senior officer praised his troops' use of the system on the 13th of March. In just the first 13 days of this operation, our artillery forces have made history.

26:37They fired the first precision strike missiles ever used in combat. So more children here killed by our missiles. This one, apparently, this new fancy high-tech missile in its debut murdered some children while they were playing sports. At the same time, Sagar, we're getting Elizabeth A7 up on the screen. We're getting more reporting about there was all sorts of happy talk about Iran's missile arsenal is being destroyed and their launcher capacity is being decimated. Well, now we got this information. U.S. intelligence has determined just 33 percent, roughly, of Iran's missile arsenal has been destroyed as the Iran war nears its one-month mark.

27:16This is per Reuters. Details include the intelligence assessment shows Iran still has significant missile inventory. I think we're seeing that every day. The status around another third is less clear, but bombings likely damage destroyed or buried those missiles in underground tunnels and bunkers. Sources say U.S. intelligence was similar for Iran's drone capability as well. Obviously, that's highly significant. And Iran is expected to recover some buried or damaged missiles once fighting stops. Tomorrow is the one-month mark of the war. So all that happy talk about how, you know, don't worry.

27:49Our interceptor stockpile is going to outlast them. We're destroying them. Trump said that they've been, you know, obliterated. He won. Victory is ours. Blah, blah, blah. They still have two-thirds of their missile arsenal. They're intact. At least, yeah. They've only been able to confirm some 33%. And also, look, in terms of the strikes, the number of the strikes from the Iranians is coming down. But because they've worn out all of the interceptors, Israel and the United States clearly are now having to ration. If they don't ration, then they'll have to pull it from every place on the globe and we'll be out of them within at least six months.

28:20So you can see this is a huge problem. Whenever you're losing$300 million aircraft, you're using$300 million aircraft, 12 U.S. soldiers who are all wounded, two of them seriously who are wounded. On top of that, you have all of the strikes on the air bases. Israel has been getting pounded day after day. The IDF has basically all but confirmed that they've had to ration a lot of the missiles that they are – or they're interceptor missiles. As I told everybody the last time, in the first 16 days of the war, if they fired on that same pace, they would have run out two days ago for their best interceptors.

28:55And in the U.S., in the first 16, the projection run date is, I think, April 16th before we're completely dry. So you have to ration. There's just no other way around it. And it takes years to build all these back. For example, let's go ahead and put the A-8 up here on the screen, the Tomahawk missile, probably the most beloved piece of military tech by every president since like Bill Clinton. It's great. You can fire it from anywhere. You can hit a target thousands of miles away. You don't actually put any troops on the ground. You can send a message, right? It makes us feel big and tough and strong and they're super precision and they work well.

29:28Not to mention, though, that actually this was used on the very first day of the war and hit the girls' school. but the U.S. has now fired some 850 TomHawk missiles. This is from the Washington Post, quote, raising concerns about the weapons limited supply. Now, we were only even technically, I think on the books to get 57 as of last year in the defense budget. So 850 in a month, 57 in the last year. What's the math on that one? I mean, just what is that? Years of the backlog? allegedly there's some ability in the supply chain to actually crank these out more but there's only one facility i think it's in arizona that even makes all of the missiles a lot of them are you know it's like by hand it's extremely complex extremely expensive too and what you can see is that this leaves you in a very difficult posture where now if something else kicks off what do you do now we really have to ration like we're already rationing here in a war everyone talks about China.

30:27Oh, China, China. Oh, they're, you know, China's, you know, they play some 90 chess about how they're taking all these hits. What are you talking about? You got E3 down. China's like, he's like, so they can't protect an E3. They're still playing Russian tactics. You got all these Tomahawk missiles. You have the interceptors that have been pulled out of South Korea. Do you know what's happening? We're going to talk about this later. The South Korean president is telling people to take shorter showers. That's how bad things are in a, can you imagine if an American president had to tell, Hey, everybody, you need to shower less.

30:53The Thai, I think the Thai president is like wearing short sleeves and he's like, listen, we're all going to have to do air conditioning. Like we're going to live with less air conditioning as we go into the summer. That's the reality already in Asia. So that could be coming. And that's what life looks like. Whenever you you're threatening the economies. I was looking yesterday, the Japanese open on their market, the Nikkei 225 was down by like 5 % on the open. They're getting hammered over there. And so all of this is dramatically weakening any potential U.S. force posture for the stuff that It actually matters to us.

31:25Like the chips, we're going to talk later. Helium is down 30%, 40%. Already, semiconductors orders being canceled. They're like, listen, we don't have the capacity. You've got all of the gas and the energy, which powers all of our homes. LNG prices, oil, natural gas, like the spot price on those, trading up. Jet fuel,$200 a barrel in Singapore as of today. If you want to fly anywhere, and if you don't want to risk flying through the Gulf from getting hit by a stray Iranian missile this summer, good luck, seriously. I mean, it's thousands of dollars of what all of this is going to look like. So it's bad.

32:01And then final thing here is the Houthis, which is what would really send this to the stratosphere because what we have right now is a situation where the streets of Hormuz are closed, but the Red Sea remains relatively open. We've seen one strike there, but we have not seen a sustained campaign. Well, the Houthis are now declaring that not only are they entering the war, Let's put A9 and take a listen here from Al Jazeera about the Houthis' official declaration that they are in it with only initial strikes yet so far on Israel, potentially holding back some of the strikes that they need to, to fully close and choke off all of the world's oil from the Middle East.

32:36Let's take a listen. We've been reporting Yemen's Houthis have joined the conflict in the Middle East. Well, the group says it launched a second attack on Israel, and that it'll launch many more strikes in the coming days.

32:52In response to the enemy's crimes on our people and our countries, and in support of the freedom of the people, we'll continue, with the grace of God, to carry out military operations in the coming days until the enemy stops its hostilities and aggressions. So, you can see that declaration. They're saying and willing to be able to get into the war. It would completely choke off Saudi Arabia. And that would easily send oil to$200 a barrel. That's right. $8 a gallon. That's what it would look like. And it also demonstrates that Iran is not at the top of, like, there's many more things that they could do.

33:23And the analysis I saw is that they've probably held back on, you know, asking the Houthis to get fully involved or close off the Bab el-Mandab Strait there in the Red Sea is because that could potentially fully bring Saudi Arabia into the war. And, I mean, it's just a very significant escalation. So there are still tools in their toolkit that they could deploy. And apparently they have the missile and the drone capacity to continue to cause a lot of damage and problems and really squeeze the global economy until we squeal. And last piece to put up here on the screen, because this speaks to that potential escalation chain and their continued capability here.

34:06You had an Iranian strike hit a service building at a Kuwaiti power and water desalination facility. And this underscores, you know, those Gulf Arab states, we've talked about this before, very vulnerable in terms of the, you know, the infrastructure that they rely on for the very basics of life, for water and for food. So, you know, this is these are the sort of actions that they have the capability of taking and can really cause a devastating blow for these these Gulf Arab regimes in particular. This is what, I mean, yeah, this is what it all looks like. Like everything, the table is set. And clearly, if we could destroy and eliminate all Iranian missiles, we would have already done it.

34:49And they already claim that we did, 95%. If they can still take out, if they're doubling the United missiles, they're able to fire in a single week as compared to last week. If they have the capability still. I mean, look, it's their country. You can, at the end of the day, how many times are we going to learn this about the air campaign? And even with Gaza. Gaza was what? is a tiny strip of land. And even with a full IDF coming in, occupying the North, they literally leveled, what, every building in the North, like to the ground? They still had Hamas and tunnels and guns. And that's, you know, a tiny spit of land.

35:21Compare that to Iran's gigantic country, ballistic missiles, control over the Straits of Hormuz. Without full-blown occupation, you can basically never guarantee that something's not gonna be flying around and hitting targets. And especially, they've got the technology, they have the cost advantage on their side. Don't forget what Trita Parsi said, which has now been confirmed. Iran is earning more today from oil than they ever have before. Ever before. They are more cash flush right now than ever. And the Kremlin appears to be sending them more drones, more technology. And it's very obvious that at least some of their targeting information is either coming from China or Russia with advanced satellites and precision.

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38:49operations to extract Iran's uranium. So if we dig down into it, it is unfortunately the craziest potential ground operation plan. But what it would entail is that it would require some U.S. forces to go deep inside of Iran and extract nearly 1 ,000 pounds of uranium that would likely put the American forces inside the country for days or longer. So let's think about it just logistically at a very basic level. You would have to deploy to multiple of these sites and potentially unknown sites, which have been buried under rubble by US bombers earlier. You have specially trained special operators who have actually trained for years for some like radioactive material recovery.

39:33So they would be the tip of the spear. That would be their job to go in to actually get it, to secure it. Now to secure them, you would actually need multiple ground forces who are around them to set a perimeter to make sure that ground operators would not, or Iranian forces would not be able to come swarm and to capture them or kill them. Then he would also need all this air power and potential interceptors and all this other stuff that's happening to make sure that drones and other things that are flying, suicide drone, missiles not being flown and shot at the country, not to mention whoever even lives in the area itself.

40:03It would be a absolute nightmare. Now, why would Trump even consider this? And again, if you've been watching, you need to really understand the strategic logic from his brain. He needs desperately an off-ramp. If he paid attention, did you notice that in that first truth about the Hormuz Strait, he actually made it open to the idea of maybe we could just have a deal and have it not deal with the Straits of Hormuz. Secretary Rubio is apparently on Good Morning America right now as you and I are speaking. And he was like, well, other countries get more out of it. So they're trying to set the table for a potential declare victory and then leave.

40:37Now, obviously, oil is a global commodity, so it doesn't really matter. We could potentially see an export ban, but I don't think it's realistic. It would eventually still make prices go sky high. What we are seeing is in their mind, they need an off-ramp. They need to be able to declare victory. The only real way to declare victory is to take away the uranium, and allegedly this is all about nuclear weapons, even though that's all fake and it's nonsense. So this is the mission in his mind, even though it's the most risky, the one that would actually deliver his mission accomplished moment and actual try and extrication from the conflict.

41:09Now, it won't get us out at the end of the day. We have all these bases. We've got all the Gulf. It's not like Iran is just going to sit there and they're going to take it. This is their only latent nuclear deterrent that they've had, which is why they won't give it up. I don't blame them. I wouldn't either, right? So look at Gaddafi. Look at North Korea. Which one would you rather be? So you could see very clearly that they know they're coming. There's no element of surprise, really, about what this potential could look like. And this is the highest, most risky one, which would easily require multiple days on the ground.

41:39And that's if everything goes well. And it never goes well. One of the things that I want to talk to Colonel Wilkerson about is he's been sounding the alarm that the decision in Iran could have already been made to race to a bomb. And that he believes it's possible for them to achieve that in a way that would be undetectable. And then imagine the way that that changes the game. I mean, it's hard for me to wrap my head around. But just to underscore the insanity of what this mission that's being contemplated here would look like, let me read to you from this Wall Street Journal piece about exactly what this mission would entail.

42:13It says, any move to seize the uranium by force would be complex and dangerous. This is according to former U.S. military officers and experts. The potential operation, which would likely trigger retaliation from Iran, could also lengthen the war well beyond the four to six week time frame Trump's team has publicly outlined. So here's what would happen. Teams of U.S. forces would need to fly to the sites, likely under fire from Iranian surface to air missiles and drones. Once on site, combat troops would need to secure perimeters so that engineers with excavating equipment could search through debris and check for mines and booby traps.

42:47The extraction of the material would likely need to be conducted by an elite special operations team. That was what Sagar was speaking to, especially trained to remove radioactive material from a conflict zone. The highly enriched uranium is likely contained in 40 to 50 special cylinders that resemble scuba tanks. They would need to be put into transportation casks to protect against accidents. That's the other aspect of all of this is potential nuclear fallout. That could fill several trucks, said an expert on this. Unless an airfield was available, a makeshift airfield would need to be set up to bring equipment in and take the nuclear material out.

43:24The entire operation would take days or even a week to complete. This is not like going in and snatching Maduro and getting out. This would take, you have to set up a makeshift airfield, secure a perimeter, go in under fire, send your team in with excavators, find this material, load it on trucks, get it onto these aircraft and get it out, you know, again, under fire. It says U.S. troops could avoid such a dangerous operation if Iran agreed to hand over its uranium as part of a peace settlement. But, you know, it doesn't look like we're headed in that direction whatsoever, like the type of peace settlement that was on the table before we decided to launch this absolutely insane and disastrous war.

44:03Can we put the next element, guys, the New York Times tear sheet I asked for this morning, just to underscore how you already have many of these pieces that are currently in place. U.S. Special Operations Forces have been sent to the Middle East in the hundreds, just in the last week or so, that have now arrived. Quote, several hundred U.S. Special Operations Forces have arrived, joining thousands of Marines, Army paratroopers in a deployment meant to give President Trump additional options. The commandos, including Army Rangers and Navy SEALs, have not yet been assigned specific missions, but as specialized ground troops, they could deploy to help safeguard the strait, or they could be deployed to try and seize Karg Island, or of course, used in a mission aimed at Iran's highly enriched uranium at the Isfahan nuclear site.

44:49So these commandos join 2 ,500 Marines, another 2 ,500 sailors who just arrived in the region as of a couple of days ago. Altogether, there are now 50 ,000 American troops in the Middle East, roughly 10 ,000 more than normal. you have all of these elite special operators on top of, remember the 82nd Airborne, which was on its way. This just, I mean, you have to follow the forces of everything that's got. That following the actual military assets in Venezuela ultimately was the only thing that proved like the truth. The direction of where things are going. For all the talk of diplomacy and all that, it didn't matter.

45:28In June of 2025, the people who were looking at, all of the assets that were being put into place, even while Trump was allegedly negotiating, guess what? They were proven correct. And then finally, one month ago almost exactly, for when this war launched, what did we see? Is it at the end of the day, all the talks, the carriers on the way, the missile, everything else with the bases, that's really what proved to actually tell it. Now, we don't know where they're going to hit. They could hit something else. But you also have a little bit of a view into Donald Trump's logic. Let's put B1 up here on the screen.

46:02This is what he tweeted last night. Watch Mark Levin interview of the brilliant Mark Thiessen tonight at 8 p.m. on Fox News. So what did Mark Levin actually say on Fox News? Let's take a listen. Troops on the ground. He said no troops on the ground. I don't remember that in any campaign speech either. But why would we need troops on the ground? Well, there's a lot of reasons, and we wouldn't need 300 ,000 of them. It's this uranium, too. We've got to get the uranium. If it cannot be destroyed, if it cannot be altered, we've got to get it. For the reason I just said, you can make dirty bombs, and over time you can still make sophisticated missiles.

46:51So you need to get to the uranium. That's why I'm reading in the paper, we're talking about the 82nd Airborne, we're talking about these very special forces and the various military services and so forth. He's not talking about sending regular army and infantry in by the hundreds of thousands. The men he's talking about, the units he's talking about, they are specialized. And you know what else? I remember from my days in the Reagan administration. Many of them are trained for a moment like this to try and secure enriched uranium. Many have been trained for moments like this. Great. There you go.

47:35Trump says watch it. This is what he says. Yeah. And I don't think Trump actually knows what he's going to do. but there is i think you're correct that a lot of logic of trumpian logic logic uh pushes in the direction of this frankly insane mission to try to seize the nuclear material because he's bored with this war he doesn't want to do it anymore he wants to focus on the midterms or his ballroom or whatever he's sort of sick of the whole thing well what is going to allow you to sort of you know do the mission accomplished okay we achieved our objective we're out of here karg island any of these other islands they're talking about, that doesn't, that actually entrenches you there for a long time, which Trump himself has admitted.

48:17I mean, indefinitely, I don't know. And obviously also that is sort of its own suicide mission for different reasons. But, you know, he's a big gambler. He's not afraid of taking insane risks. He's done it throughout his career, including his business career. He has a sense that he always lands on his feet. And in many ways, he's been right about that. This may be the, you know, the time when reality catches up. I also just have to note, like for the guy who ran from the beginning against the neocons, blah, blah, blah, to now be shouting out a Fox News segment with Mark Levin and Mark Thiessen.

48:49Do you guys know who Mark Thiessen is? I do. He was a speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld and then for George W. Bush. And he wrote a whole book about defending torture and waterboarding during the war on terror era. So these are the people that he now, you know, uplifts, the very neocons that he claimed to be so opposed to are this leading lights at this point. Yeah. Well, you know, it's, it's, it's hate. You hate to see the people who you read about ran against thought were dead, not only resurrected, but now be the people who are directly pumping. And I, you know, at this point though, that's trite.

49:27This is Trump. I'm, I'm, I'm almost done with this whole, it's Mark Levin's war. Like, yeah, that's true. But at At a certain point, like this is Trump, it's Trump, and that's it. At the end of the day, he's the guy who wants people to listen to Mark Levin. That's the guy who he's chosen to be in bed with. So be it. People like me, all of us need to reckon with it. How did this happen? It's very interesting. Well, it also shows you why this time around, all the people that got us into this disaster shit, they need to be out of media. They need to be shamed. They need to, if there were criminal acts, they need to be dealt with.

49:54Because you allow these people to linger around. Next thing you know, it's 2030 and we're getting the same bullshit about how we got to go to war with Turkey or whatever. You know that's coming. And we'll eventually get to that. You'll see gasping boomers on life support. I know you were wrong about Iran, but we've got to go to war against her. We cannot allow. This time it'll be different. Democracy will flourish. Human rights. Think of the girls. We need a gay pride parade. Whatever. We cannot allow Turkey to have a nuclear weapon, Sagar. You just don't get it this time. And by the way, as we said, put B4 up there on the screen.

50:29The US sailor. This is from CENTCOM. They're openly just tweeting this stuff out. Sailors and Marines aboard USS Tripoli have arrived in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. So you've got all of the pictures of all of these U.S. service members that are now there. Don't forget, I talked earlier about China. China is genuinely weeping as this amphibious group was taken from the Asia-Pacific and sent directly over here for potential operations. Put B-5 up there as well. This actually goes into some of the operational details of what the influx of a potential 17 ,000 additional troops could look like because that's currently being floated over at the Pentagon, far short of what would be needed for a full-scale invasion, but could seize strategic territory on the mainland, secure their stockpile, or take an island.

51:16So to set the tone for everyone, the way that this is going to go about is like the Vietnam model. What's going to happen is they're going to say that this is an initial and a special operation. That's it. It's just we're taking the island. We're taking the uranium. We're going to stay there as long as we need to. And then once we get the uranium, we're going to come out. Well, where have we heard all of that before? Well, I'll enlighten you. It actually happened during the Vietnam War where in the very first operation that General Westmoreland was in charge of, He said there is no situation where Marines will be directly engaging with the Vietnamese.

51:50He literally said that. He said we're not here to engage. It was just 3 ,500. That's it. Weren't they supposed to like take an airport? Was that the idea? Exactly right. Do you see how everything comes back around? The same exact strategic logic. There is no situation where U.S. Marines will be directly engaging with the Vietnamese. That's what he said. And of course, that's what you plan for. and even yesterday or last show, I remember they were like, Trump wants speedy end to the conflict. Every wartime leader wants a speedy end to the conflict. That doesn't mean you get it. And that's why you don't get into this damn mess in the first place.

52:23And I just, I cannot see a situation where we, at the very least, and I'm not saying we can't do it. We could just declare victory and leave. Even then, when Straits of Hormuz are closed, what are you gonna do? You're gonna, Straits are closed. The Gulf Arabs are all getting attacked. The oil refineries, what the Israelis are just going to stop. I mean, that's layering on top of all of this. They're going through it right now. We're going to talk about that a little bit later, but IDF is collapsing. You guys cover that on Friday. They've literally invaded all of Lebanon, like half of the entire country.

52:54They just expanded the buffer zone. A million people are being displaced. IDF 19-year-olds are getting killed left and right in Lebanon. I mean, after their parents died and fought in Lebanon. Don't forget, this is a political crisis in Israel, not to mention, like, look, They're stretched to the brink. They're fighting in Iran. They're taking ballistic missile fire. It's a small country. It's the size of New Jersey. Imagine that. People there are like, I haven't slept in a month, you know, because we're all under attack. But yeah, I know. Well, I do want to make a point that somebody made online, which I thought was excellent and important.

53:28By proportion, Israel has invaded and is attempting to annex a larger portion of Lebanon than Russia invaded in Ukraine. And I want you to think for a moment about the very different way those things were presented in the media. The Western media goes out of its way to describe Israel's invasion of Lebanon as anything other than an invasion. And, you know, it's guess what, guys? It's an invasion. It's wrong when Russia does it. It's also wrong when Israel does it. But in any case, your point about how, look, the public is on board with the Iran war. Don't don't get us wrong here. I mean, even with all the polling suggests, even with having to go in the bomb shelters and losing sleep and, you know, IDF soldiers getting killed and all of that, they're in for it, OK, in a much different way than the U.S.

54:17population is. But that doesn't mean there's not tremendous pressure in terms of the demands on the IDF. In fact, there's Israeli news outlets that are reporting if the U.S. puts troops on the ground, Israelis are not going to. Like, they're like, OK. Why would we ever expect that? Yeah, why would they? You can't ask for that. Their lives in the war that they have been here for for 40 years. Of course. Yeah. But in any case, I also wanted to play this last one because, you know, it speaks to the political landscape that, you know, that Trump is operating in, which for all the talk about, you know, the how MAGA would split if he went to war in Iran, blah, blah, blah.

54:57Yes, there are more independent aligned influencers predominantly who are opposed to the Iran war. As we've discussed here before, the MAGA base is all in. And Steve Bannon, I think emblematic of that, is saying, look, if we're in here now, we need to go for total war. He's all in on the war effort. So let's take a listen to that. If we're going to go to war, let's go to total war. And what I mean by total war, let's shut down everybody trading with them. Let's shut down. Let's go to UAE and said, hey, you got like two hours to go to Dubai and shut it all down. The pirate cove in Dubai got to stop.

55:30We got to stop the Arabs. Everybody's playing games. The Israelis are playing games with us. The Arabs are playing games with us. The Europeans are playing games with us. And what are we doing? We're sending troops over there. We got, which is fine. President Trump needs options and alternatives. So Bannon calling for total war. And this is the logic. This is what always happens is that people are bought in. They're like, well, we're in and I just saw yesterday. Like you just said, you've got Matt Walsh. Look, yeah, I got my problems. So he's like, hey, none of the predictions worked out. And what do I see?

56:01People are like, our troops have died. We have to support them. We have no choice. Oh, never heard that. Literally my lifetime in Iraq. Same playbook in Vietnam. This is how it all starts. I'm not saying that we're going to end up with 50 ,000 dead in 14 years of war. I really hope not, but it's not completely out of the question because you could easily see we do the uranium mission. Some shit goes real bad. Now what? I mean, what? Trump is just going to sit there and take it? Let's say that you have a disastrous strike and you have dozens of US troops raw. Again, there's nothing I want less than any of that.

56:32Now what? What? The people, Professor Pape laid this out on our last show. Now you're gonna have the entire, now we have to avenge them. Then we avenge them. Then something else goes wrong, and it just spirals and spirals, and you keep going up. And by the way, the whole time, oil continues to go up to 140, 150 a gallon. What's gonna happen to our society? We're gonna see shortages, except this time, nobody's gonna be in lockdown. It's not like they're gonna be demand destruction. It's gonna be a supply-side shock that hasn't been seen since the oil crisis. It will have massive social disruption, and that's just here at home.

57:06So it's very much like the last Iran crisis, the oil shock, combined with potential U.S. ground troops. All together, it's genuine polycrisis, which I think sets us up well for our move to the economy. So let's get to it. We've got our friend Sorab Amari standing by. Let's take a listen.

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